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Drawings Pusey Horn

Object number

LDSAL2020.42.34

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1786

Material

paper
pen
ink
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 215mm
Width: 267mm

Associated place

Pusey
Oxfordshire
Berkshire
Victoria and Albert Museum
England
United Kingdom
Europe

Inscriptions

Inscription content

The Pusey Horn.
Archæologia III. p. 13.

Inscription content

Basire. d.

References

Reference (free text)

Pegge, 'Of the Horn, as a Charter or Instrument of Conveyance. Some Observations on Mr Samuel Foxlowe's Horn; as Likewise on the Nature and Kinds of these Horns in General', Archaeologia 3 (1786): 1-29. Illustration (Engraving), pl. II, opp. p. 13.

Reference (free text)

John Cherry, 'Symbolism and Survival: Medieval Horns of Tenure', Antiquaries Journal 69 (1989): 111-18. Illustrations, figs. a and b, pl. XX, between pp. 112 and 113.

Reference (free text)

Richard Marks and Paul Williamson, eds., Gothic: Art for England, 1400-1547 (London: V&A Publications, 2003), no. 182, p. 315. Illustration (Photograph), pp. 314-15.
    The item is a preperatory drawing for the engraving in Archaeologia (see Bibliography), by Basire.