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Drawings Cannon from Eridge Green, East Sussex

Object number

LDSAL2020.2.38

Artist/Designer/Maker

Lambert, James - Artist

Production date

1768

Material

Paper
Watercolour
Pencil

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 127mm
Width: 205mm
Height (of Mount): 169mm
Width (of Mount): 245mm

Inscriptions

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Ancient Mortar at Eridge Green Sussex. 1768.

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Jas. Lambert junr.

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Archæologia Vol. X. p 472.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 10 (1792): 472. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XXXVII, between pp. 472 and 473. At the time of publication, it was thought that this cannon 'was the first that was made in England,' perhaps at Buxted near Lewis. At that time it was still operational, and had 'served for many years for the amusement of the people on a holiday or fair day; when they collect money to buy gunpowder to throw the shell to a hill about a mile distant.'