Drawings Horn of Ulph
Object number
LDSAL2020.42.30
Artist/Designer/Maker
BM - Artist
Vertue, George - Engraver
Vertue, George - Engraver
Production date
18th century
1747
1747
Material
Paper
Ink
Printer's Ink
Ink
Printer's Ink
Technique
Drawing
Engraving (Printing Process)
Engraving (Printing Process)
Dimensions
Height: 276mm
Width: 380mm
Width: 380mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Cornu antiquum Icone hac duplo undique ad amussim majus, in Templo D. Petri. Ebor. asservator AD. MDCCXVIII. Ecclesiæ, uti creditur, sub initio Sæculi XI oblatum.
Inscription content
CORNV HOC VLPHUS IN OCCIDENTALI PARTE DEIRÆ PRNCEPS VNA CVM OMNIBVS TERRIS ET REDDITIBVS SVIS OLIM DONAVIT AMMISSVM VELABREPTVM
HENRICVS Ds. FAIRFAX DEMVM RESTITVIT DEC & CAP. DE NOVO ORNAVIT AN. DOM. 1675.
HENRICVS Ds. FAIRFAX DEMVM RESTITVIT DEC & CAP. DE NOVO ORNAVIT AN. DOM. 1675.
Inscription content
B. M. delin.
Ex Collectione Samuelis Gale.
Geo. Vertue Sculp.
Ex Collectione Samuelis Gale.
Geo. Vertue Sculp.
References
Reference (free text)
John Cherry, 'Symbolism and Survival: Medieval Horns of Tenure', Antiquaries Journal 69 (1989): 111-18.
Illustration (Photograph), fig. a, pl. XXIV, opp. p. 113.
Reference (free text)
Samuel Gale, 'An Historical Dissertation upon the Antient [sic] Danish Horn, Kept in the Cathedral Church of York', Archaeologia I (1770): 168-82.
Reference (free text)
Vetusta Monumenta 1 (1747): pl. II.
Reference (free text)
T D Kendrick, 'The Horn of Ulph', Antiquity 11 (1937): 278-82.
Illustrations (Photographs), pls. I-V.
Reference (free text)
William B Scott, Antiquarian Gleanings in the North of England, Being Examples of Antique Furniture, Plate, Church Decorations, Objects of Historical Interest, Etc. (London: George Bell, 1851), pp. 9-10.
Illustration, pl. XV.
Reference (free text)
Susan Pearce, ed., Visions of Antiquity: The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1707-2007 (London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 2007), p. 103.
Illustration, fig. 29, p. 103.
The item is a plate from Vetusta Monumenta (see Bibliography).
