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Drawings Roman bronze figure from the River Thames

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.248

Artist/Designer/Maker

Corbould, Henry - Artist

Production date

1837
1838
1840

Material

paper
Brush
ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 340mm
Width: 250mm
Height (of Mount): 380mm
Width (of Mount): 305mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Bronze, supposed to represent Jupiter, found in the bed of the Thames 1837. Archæol. Vol. XXXVIII. p. 46.

Inscription content

The pedestal does not possibly belong to the figure, but as it was found with it it is extremely probable that it did.

Inscription content

H.Corbould 1838

Inscription content

III.

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. VI, 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.

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