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Print Silver lanx from Corbridge, Northumberland

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.268

Artist/Designer/Maker

Shaftoe, William - Artist
Vander Gucht, Gerhard - Engraver

Production date

1736
1736

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 455mm
Width: 520mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

To the Most Noble Prince CHARLES Duke of SOMERSET and Earl of HERTFORD, Viscount and baron Beauchamp, de Hæche, Baron Seymour of Trobridge Lord of the honours of Cockermouth and Petworth, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Kt. of ye most noble order of the Garter, and one of ye Lds. of his Majesties most Honble. Privy Councell &c.

Inscription content

This Print being an exact representation of that most Curious and valuable piece of Antiquity in Bass Reliefe in Silver weighing abt.148: Ounces found in ye year 1735: Buried in ye Sands by the River of Tyne, in your Grace's Mannor of Corbridge in ye County of Northumberland, Suposed to have been made use of in some of the Sacrifices to some Heathen Deity and to have been done above 2000: Years, which represents the Figures of Vesta, Apollo, Ceres, Minerva, and Diana, with Hieroglyphicks &c Is most humbly Dedicated by yr Graces most Dutyfull, most Obedient Humble Servt.
Wm. Shaftoe.

Inscription content

Drawn from the Original Peice [sic] of Plate by Wm. Shaftoe, which Peice [sic] of Plate is 20 Inches by 15.

Inscription content

These letters were Prick't on................the Back of ye Silver Plate.

Inscription content

Published Pursuant to an Act of Parliament ye 31st of May 1736.

References

Reference (free text)

J M C Toynbee, Art in Roman Britain (London: Phaidon Press, 1962), p. 172 (cat. 108).Illustration (Photograph), pl. 121.

Reference (free text)

John Collingwood Bruce, ed., A Descriptive Catalogue of Antiquities, Chiefly British, at Alnwick Castle (Newcastle upon Tyne, 1880), p.136, no. 745. Illustration, plate between pp. 136 and 137.

Reference (free text)

T W Potter, Roman Britain (London: British Museum Press, 1997), p. 81. Illustration, fig. 76, p. 81.

Reference (free text)

Bill Wyman and Richard Havers, Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands: Britain's History Uncovered (Stroud: Sutton, 2005), p. 87. Illustration, p. 87.
    Drawing by William Shaftoe of a late Roman lanx or platter discovered in Corbridge in 1735. The drawing was subsequently engraved by Gerard Van der Gucht in order to produce engraved prints, which could be purchased by subscription.