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Drawings Bronze Age swords & dress-fastener from Ireland

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.195

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1786

Material

Paper
Ink
Pen
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 224mm
Width: 283mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Bronze Swords, found in the Bog of Cullen, Co. Tipperary, also a Mamilliary of Gold found on the breast of a Figure

Archæologia III. p. 355.

Inscription content

Basire Del.

Inscription content

2 feet 2 Inches ½
2 feet 9 Inches
4 Inches 1/6
4 Inches 1/6

References

Reference (free text)

Governor [Thomas] Pownall, 'An Account of Some Irish Antiquities', Archaeologia 3 (1786): 355-70. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XIX, opp. p. 355.

Reference (free text)

Michael Herity, 'Early Finds of Irish Antiquities from the Minute Books of the Society of Antiquaries of London', Antiquaries Journal 49 (1969): 1-21. Illustration, fig. c, pl. III, between pp. 6 and 7.
    This is the preparatory drawing from which the published engraving (see Bibliography) was made.