Drawings Roman altar from Tynemouth Castle

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.31

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Attributed to

Production date

1783
1786
1787

Material

paper
pen
ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 208mm
Width: 242mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

J.B. del. 14 Jan. 1786.

Inscription content

Arch. Vol. VIII. 326

References

Reference (free text)

John Brand, 'Explanation of the Inscriptions on a Roman Altar and Tablet Found at Tinmouth [sic] Castle in Northumberland, A.D.1783', Archaeologia 8 (1787): 326-8. Illustration (Engraving), figs. 1 and 4, pl. XXI, opp. p. 326.

Reference (free text)

Albert Way, Catalogue of Antiquities, Coins, Pictures, and Miscellaneous Curiosities, in the Possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847 (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847), pp. 7-8, nos. 27 and 28.

Reference (free text)

John Hodgson, History of Northumberland 7 vols. (Newcastle: John Hodgson, 1820), pt. 2, vol. 3: 169.

Reference (free text)

William Camden, Britannia: or, A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, from the Earliest Antiquity 2nd ed, 4 vols. (London: John Stockdale, 1806), 3: 514. Illustration (Engraving), figs. 14 and 15, pl. XXXV, opp. p. 509.