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Drawings Roman helmet from Ribchester, Lancashire

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.271

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1796
1799
1815

Material

paper
watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 410mm
Width: 340mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Antique Helmet of Bronze, of the same Size, found at Ribchester, in the Possession of Charles Townley Esq.
Vetust. Mon. IV. pl. 1.

Inscription content

J.Basire delt.

Inscription content

I.

References

Reference (free text)

Vetusta Monumenta 4 (1815): 1-12. Illustration (Engraving by Basire dated 1799), pl. I, between pp. 12 and 13. The drawing is reproduced in plate I. Fig. 1, pl. II shows a front view of the helmet, fig. 2, pl. II shows the diadem, pl. III shows a back view, and the illustration on page 12 shows the diadem unrestored.

Reference (free text)

Joseph Farington, The Diary of Joseph Farington (Kenneth Garlick, Angus Macintyre, and Kathryn Cave, eds.) 17 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978-1998), 4, p. 1174.

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. 80. Illustration (Engraving), pl. V, opp. p. 80.

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British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 67. Illustration (Photograph), fig. 4, pl. XXVI, opp. p. 67.

Reference (free text)

B J N Edwards, The Ribchester Hoard (Preston: Lancashire County Books, 1992).

Reference (free text)

I P Stephenson and K R Dixon, Roman Cavalry Equipment (Stroud: Tempus, 2003), pp. 20-21. Illustrations, p. 22; pl. 1, following p. 63.

Reference (free text)

R P Jackson and P T Craddock, 'The Ribchester Hoard: A Descriptive and Technical Study', in Barry Raftery, ed., Sites and Sights of the Iron Age: Essays on Fieldwork and Museum Research Presented to Ian Mathieson Stead (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1995), pp. 75-102. Illustrations (Photographs), no. 1, fig. 47, p. 77; fig. 48, p. 79.

Reference (free text)

Bill Wyman and Richard Havers, Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands: Britain's History Uncovered (Stroud: Sutton, 2005), pp. 118-19. Illustration, p. 119.

Reference (free text)

T W Potter, Roman Britain (London: British Museum Press, 1997), p. 50. Illustration, fig. 32, p. 50.

Reference (free text)

Susan Pearce, ed., Visions of Antiquity: The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1707-2007 (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 2007), p. 122. Illustration, fig. 36, p. 122.