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Drawings Roman helmet from Ribchester, Lancashire

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.275

Artist/Designer/Maker

Tendi, A - Artist

Production date

1796
1798
1815

Material

Paper
Pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 486mm
Width: 391mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Back view of the Ribchester Helmet.
Vetusta Mon. Vol.IV. pl. 3

Inscription content

A.Tendi Delt.

Inscription content

IIII.

References

Reference (free text)

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

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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.