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Drawings Buckle and circular ornament from Ireland

Object number

LDSAL2020.34.24

Artist/Designer/Maker

Scraggs, W - Lithographer

Production date

1850

Production place

Co. Cork

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Lithography

Dimensions

Height: 226mm
Width: 184mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

W.SCRAGGS LITH.

Inscription content

Fig. 1. - A mediæval Buckle, supposed to have belonged to the sword-belt of a Knight Crusader (?)

Fig. 2. - The Obverse & Reverse of an Armorial Ornament
of the same period.

Litho. for Richd. Caulfield B.A. - Cork, Novr. 1850.

Inscription content

The above are of Silver, richly gilt, and now in the possession of Thos. Romayne Sarsfield Esq. of Ducloyne in the Co. Cork, by one of whose ancestors they were worn.

Inscription content

Presented to the Society of Antiquaries of London by Richard Caulfield, B.A.
1850

Inscription content

The Society of Antiquaries with Rich Caulfield's best respects.

References

Reference (free text)

Joan Evans, A History of Jewellery, 1100-1870 2nd edn. (London: Faber and Faber, 1970), pl. 17