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Drawings Medieval enamelled plaques of Henry of Blois

Object number

LDSAL2020.28.31

Production date

1848

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)

Dimensions

Height: 118mm
Width: 126mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

cf. Arch. IV. 137.

Inscription content

Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester.
(2 halves of plate).
c1160 now in the BM.

References

Reference (free text)

English Romanesque Art, 1066-1200: Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April - 8 July 1984 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), no. 277, pp. 261-2.Illustrations (Photographs), p. 262.

Reference (free text)

Augustus W Franks, 'On the Additions to the Collection of National Antiquities in the British Museum', Archaeological Journal 10 (1853): 1-13. Illustration (Engraving), opp. p. 9.

Reference (free text)

George Isaacs, 'On an Enamelled Plate of the Twelfth Century, In the Possession of the Rev Henry Crowe', Journal of the British Archaeological Association 3 (1848): 102-5. Illustration (Engraving), p. 102.

Reference (free text)

Neil Stratford, Catalogue of Medieval Enamels in the British Museum. Volume II: Northern Romanesque Enamel (London: British Museum Press, 1993), nos. 1 and 2, pp. 53-8. Illustrations (Photographs), pls. I, III, IV, V, and VI.