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Drawings Antiquities from Sherwood Forest

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.191

Artist/Designer/Maker

Rooke, Hayman - Artist
Wiglay, J - Engraver

Production date

1777
1779
1777
1779

Material

paper
ink
printer's ink

Technique

Drawing
Etching

Dimensions

Height: 229mm
Width: 292mm

Associated place

Sherwood Forest
Blidworth
Newstead
Nottinghamshire
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

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ROMAN ANTIQUITIES FOUND IN SHERWOOD FOREST.

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H.R. del.

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J. Wigley, sc.

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Hayman Rooke F.S.A.

References

Reference (free text)

H Rooke, A Sketch of the Ancient and Present State of Sherwood Forest, in the County of Nottingham (Nottingham: S Tupman, 1799), pp. 23-7. Illustration (Engraving), pl. opp. p. 26.

Reference (free text)

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2nd series 13 (1889-1891): 9.

Reference (free text)

Rev Samuel Pegge, 'Observations on Some Brass Celts, and Other Weapons Discovered in Ireland, 1780', Archaeologia 9 (1789): 84-95. Illustration (Engraving), pl. III, opp. p. 84.