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Drawings Copper bowls from Lothbury, London

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.10

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1842

Material

paper
pen
ink
pencil
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 290mm
Width: 236mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Ancient Bowls of Copper found in Lothbury.
Archæol. Vol. XXIX. p 367.

Inscription content

J. Basire delt.

References

Reference (free text)

'Ancient Copper Bowls Found in Lothbury', Archaeologia 29 (1842): 367-8. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XXIX, opp. p. 367.
    The drawing shows the two engraved cooper bowls decribed by Charles Roach Smith to the Society of Antiquaries of London on 21 June 1838; it is evidently the preparatory drawing for the published engraving (see Bibliography).