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Drawings Roman bronze figure from the River Thames

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.245

Artist/Designer/Maker

Corbould, Henry - Artist
Moses, Henry - Engraver

Production date

1837
1838
1840
1837
1840

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)

Dimensions

Height: 291mm
Width: 288mm

Inscriptions

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Bronze Figure of a Priest, or devotee of Cybele found in the bed of the Thames 1837.

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H. Corbould delt. 1838.

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H. Moses Sculp
Archæol. Vol. XXVIII.

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B. Museum

References

Reference (free text)

Charles Roach Smith, 'On Some Roman Bronzes Discovered in the Bed of the Thames, in January 1837', Archaeologia 28 (1840): 38-46. Illustration (Engraving), pl. IV, opp. p. 46.

Reference (free text)

British Musuem, A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (London: British Museum, 1922), p. 89.

Reference (free text)

British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 54. Illustration (Photograph), fig17, pl. XVII, opp. p. 56.