Drawings Roman mosaic from Bignor, West Sussex
Object number
LDSAL2020.15.311
Artist/Designer/Maker
Lysons, Samuel - Printer/Publisher
Production date
1811
1817
1817
Material
paper
ink
printer's ink
ink
printer's ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving
Engraving
Dimensions
Height: 562mm
Width: 364mm
Width: 364mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
PL. XL.
Inscription content
1. Restored Design of the Mosaic Pavement marked E in the Plans. 2.Specimens of the Mosaic Work.
on the Scale of two Inches to a Foot.
on the Scale of two Inches to a Foot.
Inscription content
Published by S. Lysons Aug. 1817
Inscription content
Bignor
Lysons Reliquæ Britannico Romanæ iii
Lysons Reliquæ Britannico Romanæ iii
References
Reference (free text)
Samuel Lysons, Reliquiæ Britannico-Romanæ, Containing Figures of Roman Antiquities Discovered in Various Parts of England 3 vols. (London: Cadell and Davies, 1813-17), 3: 1-6.
Illustration, pl. XI.
Reference (free text)
Samuel Lysons, 'Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa, Discovered at Bignor, in Sussex, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815', Archaeologia 18 (1817): 203-21.
Reference (free text)
Samuel Lysons, 'Account of Further Discoveries of the Remains of a Roman Villa at Bignor in Sussex', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 176-7.
Reference (free text)
Thomas Morgan, Romano-British Mosaic Pavements: A History of Their Discovery and a Record and Interpretation of Their Designs (London: Witing & Co., 1886), 203.
Reference (free text)
William Page ... [et al.], eds., The Victoria History of the County of Sussex 9 vols. (London, 1905-1997), 3: 20-3.
Reference (free text)
J M C Toynbee, Art in Britain Under the Romans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), pp. 260-2.
Reference (free text)
Barry Cunliffe, The Regni (London: Duckworth, 1973), pp. 89-95.