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Drawings Roman silver patera(e) from Northumberland

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.112

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1806

Material

Paper
Pencil

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 275mm
Width: 445mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

fragments of Silver Vessels belonging to Sir John Swinburne Bart. in Northumberland discovered 1747
Archæologia XV. p. 393.

Inscription content

J. Basire, del.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 15 (1806): 393-4. Illustrations (Engravings) pls. XXX - XXXII, between pp. 393 and 394. A letter from Sir John Edward Swinburne, who acquired part of a hoard of silver vessels, mainly broken fragments of highly decorated paterae including that shown in this drawing. The vessels seem to have been for religious use. They were found in 1747 near Swinburne's house in Northumberland (place unspecified).

Reference (free text)

British Musuem, A Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (London: British Museum, 1922), pp. 90-3. Illustrations (Engravings), figs. 111 and 112, pp. 91 and 92.

Reference (free text)

British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 41. Illustrations (Photographs), figs. 49 and 50, pl. X, opp. p. 41.