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Drawings Medieval engraved basin from the Severn

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.15

Artist/Designer/Maker

Whishaw, Francis - Artist
Whishaw, Francis - Lithographer
L Clarke & Co. - Printer/Publisher

Production date

1824
1824

Material

Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink

Technique

Drawing
Lithography

Dimensions

Height: 500mm
Width: 388mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

COPY OF FIGVRES & DESCRIPTIVE LINES
ENGRAVED ON THE INSIDE OF AN ANTIQUE METALIC VESSEL
which was found in the Bed of the RIVER SEVERN, July ix MDCCCXXIV by one of the Workmen employed in digging the ground for the foundation of One of the Piers of the HAWBRIDGE now being erected between GLO'STER & TEWKESBURY

Inscription content

Printed & Published by L. Clark & Co. Birchin Le.

Copied from the original & drawn on Stone by F. Whishaw

Inscription content

Presented by Mr. Nicholas, 9th Dec. 1824.

References

Reference (free text)

Reiner Haussherr (ed.), Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte, Kunst, Kultur 4 vols. (Stuttgart: Württembergisches Landesmuseum, 1977), 1: 205, nos. 248, 249. Illustration, pl. 138, volume 2. The item in this catalogue is similar to the one shown in the drawing.

Reference (free text)

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2nd series 5 (1870-1873): 444-5. On 13 February 1873, the bowl was exhibited to the meeting of the Society of Antiquaries by Mr W L Lawrence on behalf of the then owner T Agg Gardiner.

Reference (free text)

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2nd series 1 (1859-1861): 235-8. Remarks upon the bowl exhibited by W L Lawrence to a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries, 22 November 1860. A comprehensive list of references is given, including Thomas Wilkes' account of its discovery.

Reference (free text)

'Proceedings at the Meeetings of the Archaeological Institute', Archaeological Journal 18 (1861): 72-3. Albert Way gave a short notice of a dish or 'bacin' engraved curiously with mythological subjects.

Reference (free text)

Gentleman's Magazine 94 (1824): 627. This describes the bowl that was found earlier at the same place, engraved with the story of Hercules.

Reference (free text)

Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 5 (1881): 188-90.

Reference (free text)

O M Dalton, 'On Two Medieval Bronze Bowls in the British Museum', Archaeologia 72 (1922): 133-60.