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Printing plate
copper plate Map of the Area of Bennavenna (Borough Hill)

Object number

LDSAL2022.2.74

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Engraver

Production date

1854

Material

copper

Technique

Etching
Engraving

Dimensions

height: 282mm
width: 371mm

Location

Burlington House -

Content description

Printing plate reproducing a map of the area of Bennavenna (Borough Hill), near Daventry; from Archaeologia vol. XXXV plate XVI.

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Map of the surrounding Neighbourhood of Bennavenna, traced from the Ordnance Survey. / Vol. XXX. Plate XVI. p. 394.

Inscription content

Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1854.

Inscription date

1854

Inscription content

J. Basire sc.

References

Reference (controlled)

Betti, Chiara. “Lost Treasures Resurface: The Untold Story of the Society of Antiquaries’ Printing Plates.” The Antiquaries Journal 104 (2024): 304–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000179.

Printing plate reproducing a map of the area of Bennavenna (Borough Hill), near Daventry; from Archaeologia vol. XXXV plate XVI.

This plate was commissioned by the Society of Antiquaries as an illustration for vol. 35, issue 2 of the journal "Archaeologia". The paper is by Edward Pretty.

Digitised thanks to the kind donation of Ms Margaret Ford FSA.