Drawings Lewis Chessmen
Object number
LDSAL2020.42.62
Artist/Designer/Maker
Basire, James - Artist
Production date
1832
Material
paper
pencil
pencil
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 257mm
Width: 191mm
Width: 191mm
Associated place
Uig
Isle of Lewis
Western Isles
Scotland
British Museum
United Kingdom
Europe
Isle of Lewis
Western Isles
Scotland
British Museum
United Kingdom
Europe
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), pl. XLVI, opp. p. 214.
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.
