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Drawings Medieval bronze reliquary from Oxfordshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.28.52

Artist/Designer/Maker

Thompson, C - Artist
Delamotte, Philip Henry - Engraver

Production date

1849
1849

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Woodcut

Dimensions

Height: 222mm
Width: 140mm

Inscriptions

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CHASED WORK IN BRONZE.

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Cover of a Pyx, in the possession of Mr Spiers
Discovered near Oxford.
(Size of the Original.)

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P H DELAMOTTE
C J THOMPSON[?]

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Arch Inst. VI. 412

References

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 7 (1849): 412. Illustration (Engraving), opp. p. 412.

Reference (free text)

English Romanesque Art, 1066-1200: Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April - 8 July 1984 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), no. 228, pp. 238-9. Illustration (Photograph), p. 238.

Reference (free text)

David A Hinton, A Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork, 700-1100, in the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974), no. 30, pp. 56-60. Illustrations (Photographs), pls. XVI and XVII.
    The item is a plate from Archaeological Journal (see Bibliography).