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Drawings Finds from the Giants' Tower, Gozo, Malta

Object number

LDSAL2020.19.126

Artist/Designer/Maker

Hennah, William Veale Rev - Artist

Production date

1831

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Brush
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 185mm
Width: 226mm

Location

Burlington House - Library

Inscriptions

Inscription content

No. 4

Inscription content

No. 1 A figure cut upon a very hard stone found at the Torre dei Giganti and preserved at the Governor's Office at Gozo.
No. 2 Three balls cojoined, cut in marble & found & preserved as the above.
N. 3, 4, 5 Patterns on pieces of pottery found at the Torre dei Giganti.

W.V.Hennah.

References

Reference (free text)

W H Smyth, 'Notice of Some Remains at Goza [sic], Near Malta', Archaeologia 22 (1829): 294-6.

Reference (free text)

J D Evans, The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Maltese Islands: a Survey (London: Athlone Press, 1971), pp. 172-91.
    Pen, ink, and wash drawing on paper. The drawing records a number of carved and decorated stone and pottery artefacts found at one of the temple sites at Xaghra, Gozo.
    Pen, ink, and wash drawing on paper. The drawing records a number of carved and decorated stone and pottery artefacts found at one of the temple sites at Xaghra, Gozo.

    This is one of three drawings (the others are LDSAL2020.19.127 and LDSAL2020.19.128) which accompanied a letter from Rev William Veale Hennah to Davies Gilbert (see LDSAL2020.19.118). Hennah numbered these drawings 4, 5, and 6 (the whereabouts of drawings 1, 2, and 3 are unknown).