Drawings Lewis Chessmen
Object number
LDSAL2020.42.60
Artist/Designer/Maker
Basire, James - Artist
Production date
1832
Material
Paper
Pencil
Pencil
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 257mm
Width: 204mm
Width: 204mm
References
Reference (free text)
Frederic Madden, 'Historical Remarks on the Introduction of the Game of Chess into Europe, and on the Ancient Chess-Men Discovered in the Isle of Lewis', Archaeologia 24 (1832): 203-91.
Illustration (Engraving), figs. 1, 2, 4, and 5, pl. XLVII, opp. p. 222.
Reference (free text)
English Romanesque Art, 1066-1200: Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April - 8 July 1984 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), no. 212, p. 227.
Illustrations (Photographs), pp. 72 and 227.
Reference (free text)
John Beckwith, Ivory Carvings in Early Medieval England (London: Harvey Miller & Medcalf, 1972), no. 166.
Illustrations (Photographs), figs. 261-265.
Reference (free text)
Virginia Glenn, Romanesque & Gothic Decorative Metalwork and Ivory Carvings in the Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh : NMSE Publishing, 2003), pp. 149-77.
Illustrations (Photographs), pp. lxi, 149-77.
Reference (free text)
Bill Wyman and Richard Havers, Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands: Britain's History Uncovered (Stroud: Sutton, 2005), pp. 245-7.
Illustration, pp. 246-7.
