Drawings Aeolipile from Basingstoke, Hampshire
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.140
Artist/Designer/Maker
Basire, James - Artist
Production date
1807
Material
Paper
Wash
Brush
Wash
Brush
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 262mm
Width: 196mm
Width: 196mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Ancient Bronze Æolipyle [sic] found at Basingstoke.
Vide Archæol. Vol. XIII. p. 413.
Vide Archæol. Vol. XIII. p. 413.
Inscription content
J. Basire, delt.
Inscription content
-10½ inch.
Inscription content
Basingstoke
References
Reference (free text)
Archaeologia 13 (1807): 410, 414.
Illustration (Engraving), pl. XXVII, opp. p. 410.
Reference (free text)
Albert Way, Catalogue of Antiquities, Coins, Pictures, and Miscellaneous Curiosities, in the Possession of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847 (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1847), p. 22.
Reference (free text)
W L Hildburgh, 'Aeolipiles as Fire-Blowers', Archaeologia 94 (1951): 27-55.
Illustrations (Photographs), figs. a, b, and c, pl. XIII, between pp. 36 and 37.
Reference (free text)
'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 8 (1851): 193-4.
A description of how 'Jack of Hilton', a very similar aeolopile, was used at Hilton Park in Staffordshire as a New Year custom.
Reference (free text)
John Cherry, 'Symbolism and Survival: Medieval Horns of Tenure', Antiquaries Journal 69 (1989): 111-18.
See p. 116 for discussion of 'Jack of Hilton', a very similar aeolipile.
Reference (free text)
Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (Oxford, 1686), p. 443.
Reference (free text)
Elizabeth Lewis, 'The Aeolipile from Basingstoke', Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society Newsletter 47 (2007): 4-8.
