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Drawings Anglo-Saxon bronze cruciform brooch from Leics.

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.68

Artist/Designer/Maker

Schnebbelie, Jacob - Artist

Production date

1785
1788

Material

Paper
Pen
Ink
Watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 230mm
Width: 316mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Found near Rothley Temple, Leicestershire with coins of Constantine (?) presented by Thomas Babington Esq.
through Sir Joseph Banks.

Inscription content

Schnebbelie delin. Nov 20th 1788.

Inscription content

The Original is in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries 1847.

Inscription content

Presented Nov 6. 1788.
[Minutes] vol. XXII. 433.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 9 (1789): 370-1.

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), no. 99.

Reference (free text)

John Nichols, The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester 4 vols. (London: John Nichols, 1795-1811), 3: 956-7. Illustration (Engraving), figs. 15a and 15b, pl. CXXIX, opp. p. 958.