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Drawings Saxon pottery from Germany

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.155

Artist/Designer/Maker

Kemble, John Mitchell - Artist

Production date

1855

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 200mm
Width: 320mm

Inscriptions

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THE ILMENAU and its tributaries. LUENEBURG.
¼ nat. size.

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III.

Inscription content

This is all toned a little too high, but it was colour'd by candle light and ... corrected for daylight.

Inscription content

IMK.

References

Reference (free text)

John Mitchell Kemble, 'On Mortuary Urns Found at Stade-on-the-Elbe, and Other Parts of North Germany, now in the Museum of the Historical Society of Hanover', Archaeologia 36 (1855): 270-83. Illustration, pl. XXIV, between pp. 282 and 283.

Reference (free text)

John M Kemble, Horæ Ferales; or, Studies in the Archæology of the Northern Nations (London: Lovell, Reeve, and Co., 1863), pp. 221-32. Illustration, pl. XXXII, opp. p. 231.

Reference (free text)

Pamela J Willetts, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Society of Antiquaries of London (Woodbridge: D S Brewer, 2000), no. 682, p. 292.