Drawings Roman helmet from Ribchester, Lancashire
Object number
LDSAL2020.15.272
Artist/Designer/Maker
Basire, James - Artist
Production date
1796
1799
1815
1799
1815
Material
Paper
Watercolour
Watercolour
Technique
Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)
Painting (Image-Making)
Dimensions
Height: 410mm
Width: 340mm
Width: 340mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Front view of the Antique Helmet of Bronze found at Ribchester.
Vetusta Mon. Vol.IV. pl. 2.
Vetusta Mon. Vol.IV. pl. 2.
Inscription content
J.Basire delt.
Inscription content
II.
References
Reference (free text)
Vetusta Monumenta 4 (1815): 1-12.
Illustration (Engraving by Basire dated 1799), fig, 1, pl. II, between pp. 12 and 13.
The drawing is reproduced in fig. 1, pl. II. Pl. I shows a side 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.
Reference (free text)
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.