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Drawings Roman bronze vessel from Prickwillow, Isle of Ely

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.19

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1838
1840

Material

paper
pen
ink
watercolour

Technique

Drawing
Painting (Image-Making)

Dimensions

Height: 256mm
Width: 224mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

J. Basire, delt.

Inscription content

Bronze Vessel, found in 1838 in the hamlet of Prickwillow in the Isle of Ely.
Vide Archæol. XXVIII. p. 436.

Inscription content

In the possession of Goddard Johnson Esq. of Norwich 1847.

References

Reference (free text)

Archaeologia 28 (1840): pl. XXV, opp. p. 436.

Reference (free text)

British Museum, Guide to the Antiquities of Roman Britain 2nd ed. (London: British Museum, 1958), p. 38. Illustration, pl. XVIII, between pp. 56 and 57.

Reference (free text)

T W Potter, Roman Britain (London: British Museum Press, 1997), p. 42. Illustration, fig. 23, p. 42.
    This is probably a preparatory drawing for Basire's engraving published in Archaeologia (see Bibliography).