Drawings Viking silver penannular brooch from Co. Galway
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.270
Artist/Designer/Maker
O'Driscol - Lithographer
Production date
Circa 1853
Material
Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink
Ink
Printer's Ink
Technique
Drawing
Lithography
Lithography
Dimensions
Height: 168mm
Width: 128mm
Width: 128mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
For the Society of Antiquaries of London with Mr Edward Hoare's compliments
Inscription content
Actual size of Original.
UNIQUE, HIGHLY-INTERESTING AND VERY VALUABLE.
ANCIENT CELTO-IRISH, SILVER PENANNULAR BROOCH,
(Set with Ambers, and Ornamented with Wolves heads)
Dug up in the supposed remnants of a Tumulus,
IN THE COUNTY OF GALWAY.
About three miles South-east of the town of Galway, During the month of June 1853,
And, now, in the Collection of EDWARD HOARE Esq. of CORK.
O'Driscol Lithog. Pembroke St. Cork.
UNIQUE, HIGHLY-INTERESTING AND VERY VALUABLE.
ANCIENT CELTO-IRISH, SILVER PENANNULAR BROOCH,
(Set with Ambers, and Ornamented with Wolves heads)
Dug up in the supposed remnants of a Tumulus,
IN THE COUNTY OF GALWAY.
About three miles South-east of the town of Galway, During the month of June 1853,
And, now, in the Collection of EDWARD HOARE Esq. of CORK.
O'Driscol Lithog. Pembroke St. Cork.
References
Reference (free text)
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 6 (1853-1857): 387, 419.
Reference (free text)
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 7 (1857-1861): 107-8.
Reference (free text)
'Proceedings at the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 11 (1854): 70-1.
Reference (free text)
Gentleman's Magazine new series 91 (1854): 146-7.
Illustration (Engraving), p. 147.
Reference (free text)
Katharine Reynolds Brown, Migration Art, AD 300-800 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995), p. 41.
Illustration (Photograph), no. 58, p. 41.
Reference (free text)
'African and Irish Fibulæ', Ulster Journal of Archaeology 5 (1857): 246-8.
Illustration (Engraving), opp. p. 246.
