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Drawings Medieval gold finger ring from Windsor

Object number

LDSAL2020.34.3

Artist/Designer/Maker

Underwood, T R - Artist

Production date

1795

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 156mm
Width: 138mm
Height (of Mount): 186mm
Width (of Mount): 168mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

T.R. Underwood del.1795.

Inscription content

Gold Ring found in the Home Park Windsor.
App. Archaeol. Vol. XII. p. 411.

Inscription content

The original exhibited by Lewis Majendi Esq. F.S.A. March 12. 1795.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 12 (1809): 411. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 6, pl. L, between pp. 408-9. The author, Lewis Majendie, suggests that the ring was the personal ornament, (ie, not formal regalia) of a member of the Order of St Michael.