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Drawings Roman bronze head from Bath

Object number

LDSAL2020.16.61

Artist/Designer/Maker

Gordon, A - Artist
Vertue, George - Engraver

Production date

1727
1727

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 443mm
Width: 322mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

CAPUT hoc, ex ære inauratum, antiquo opere, summoque artificio conflatum, Urbis inter rudera multis jam seculis excisa, sepultum, AQUIS SOLIS in agro Somersetensi XVI tandem sub solo ped. effossum A.D. CIC DCCXXVII. Æternitati consecravit Soc. Antiquar. Londinensis.

Inscription content

A.Gordon del.

Inscription content

G.Vertue Sculp.
L.C.

References

Reference (free text)

Vetusta Monumenta 1 (1747): pl. XXXIV.

Reference (free text)

Barry W Cunliffe, Roman Bath Discovered (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971), pp. 8-9. Illustrations, cover and coloured pl. I, between pp. 48 and 49.

Reference (free text)

Barry W Cunliffe, Roman Bath Discovered (Stroud: Tempus, 2000), pp. 24-5. Illustrations, cover and fig. 8, p. 25.
    The item is a plate (or proof of a plate) from Vetusta Monumenta (see Bibliography).