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Drawings Roman mosaic from Bignor, West Sussex

Object number

LDSAL2020.15.312

Artist/Designer/Maker

Lysons, Samuel - Printer/Publisher

Production date

1811
1817

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink
watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 555mm
Width: 844mm

Associated place

Bignor
West Sussex
Sussex
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

probably one of our missing plates in Lysons' Reliq. Rom. Vol. 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. Illustrations, pls. V, VII-IX.

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.

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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 Roman Britain (London: Phaidon Press, 1962), no. 190, p. 200.

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.

Reference (free text)

David E Johnston, 'The Central-Southern Group of Romano-British Mosaics', in Julian Munby and Martin Henig, eds., Roman Life and Art in Britain: A Celebration in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Jocelyn Toynbee 2 vols. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1977), 1: 115, 117.

Reference (free text)

Neil Andrew Cookson, Romano-British Mosaics: A Reassessment and Critique of Some Notable Stylistic Affinities (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1984), pl. 38. Illustration, pl. 38.