Drawings Portland Vase
Object number
LDSAL2020.16.5
Artist/Designer/Maker
Windus, Thomas - Artist
Dean & Co. - Lithographer
Dean & Co. - Lithographer
Production date
1845
1845
1845
Material
Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink
Ink
Printer's Ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Lithography
Engraving (Printing Process)
Lithography
Dimensions
Height: 240mm
Width: 339mm
Width: 339mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
THE PORTLAND VASE.
Inscription content
T. Windus F.S.A. Direxit
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Dean & Co. Lith. Threadneedle St.
References
Reference (free text)
D E L Haynes, The Portland Vase 2nd ed. (London: British Museum Publications, 1975).
Reference (free text)
Thomas Windus, A New Elucidation of the Subjects on the Celebrated Portland Vase, Formerly Called the Barberini, and the Sarcophagus in which it was Discovered (London, 1845).
Illustration, frontispiece.
Reference (free text)
Ian Jenkins and Kim Sloan, Vases & Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and His Collection (London: British Museum Press, 1996), pp. 187-91.
The lithograph is one of the illustrations to T Windus's interpretation of the subject of the Portland Vase (see Bibliography).
