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Drawings Roman helmet from Ribchester, Lancashire

Object number

LDSAL2020.34.15

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1796
1799
1815

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash
Pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 210mm
Width: 378mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

The diadem expanded and Restored.

Vetust.Mon.Vol.IV.pl.2.

Inscription content

James Basire delt.

References

Reference (free text)

Vetusta Monumenta 4 (1815): 1-12. Illustrations (Engravings), p. 12, pls. I-III, between pp. 12 and 13. The drawing is reproduced in fig. 2, plate II. Plate I shows the whole helmet in profile, fig. 1, pl. II shows a front view of the helmet, pl. III shows a back view, and the illustration on page 12 shows the diadem unrestored.

Reference (free text)

Joseph Farington, The Diary of Joseph Farington (Kenneth Garlick, Angus Macintyre, and Kathryn Cave, eds.) 17 vols. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978-1998), 4, p. 1174.

Reference (free text)

British Musuem, A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (London: British Museum, 1922), p. 80. Illustration (Engraving), pl. V, opp. p. 80.

Reference (free text)

British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 67. Illustration (Photograph), fig. 4, pl. XXVI, opp. p. 67.

Reference (free text)

B J N Edwards, The Ribchester Hoard (Preston: Lancashire County Books, 1992).

Reference (free text)

I P Stephenson and K R Dixon, Roman Cavalry Equipment (Stroud: Tempus, 2003), pp. 20-21. Illustrations, p. 22; pl. 1, following p. 63.

Reference (free text)

R P Jackson and P T Craddock, 'The Ribchester Hoard: A Descriptive and Technical Study', in Barry Raftery, ed., Sites and Sights of the Iron Age: Essays on Fieldwork and Museum Research Presented to Ian Mathieson Stead (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1995), pp. 75-102. Illustrations (Photographs), no. 1, fig. 47, p. 77; fig. 48, p. 79.

Reference (free text)

Bill Wyman and Richard Havers, Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands: Britain's History Uncovered (Stroud: Sutton, 2005), pp. 118-19. Illustration, p. 119.

Reference (free text)

T W Potter, Roman Britain (London: British Museum Press, 1997), p. 50. Illustration, fig. 32, p. 50.