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Roman mosaic from Bignor, West Sussex
A sheet of grey paper, on which are pasted a cut-down impression of an engraving by Thomas King of the Bignor pavement, and a cutting from the M[orning?] Post dated August 1811, and another cutting dated July 1811. The cuttings describe the circumstances of the find.The two newspaper cuttings decribe the finding of the pavement with an hexagonal pool, at Bignor in the summer of 1811. The engravi…
Creator
- King, Thomas (1775-1845)
- Knight Watson, Charles
- Lysons, Samuel
- Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Subject
- Drawings
- Engravings/Etchings/Lithographs
- archaeology
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Creator
- King, Thomas (1775-1845)
- Knight Watson, Charles
- Lysons, Samuel
- Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Subject
- Drawings
- Engravings/Etchings/Lithographs
- archaeology
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
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Rights
- King, Thomas (1775-1845)|Knight Watson, Charles|Lysons, Samuel|Meyrick, Samuel Rush, Sir
Temporal
- Roman
Places
- Bignor
- England
- Europe
- Sussex
- United Kingdom
- West Sussex
- West Sussex
- United Kingdom
- England
- Bignor
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Britannia Romana
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/britannia_romana/br101a
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- Barry Cunliffe, The Regni (London: Duckworth, 1973), pp. 89-95. Illustration, fig. 33, p. 93.|David E Johnston, 'The Central-Southern Group of Romano-British Mosaics', in Julian Munby and Martin Henig, eds., Roman Life and Art in Britain: A Celebration in Honour of the Eightieth Birthday of Jocelyn Toynbee 2 vols. (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1977), 1: 115, 117.|J M C Toynbee, Art in Britain Under the Romans (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964), pp. 260-2.|J M C Toynbee, Art in Roman Britain (London: Phaidon Press, 1962), no. 190, p. 200. Illustration, pl. 224.|Neil Andrew Cookson, Romano-British Mosaics: A Reassessment and Critique of Some Notable Stylistic Affinities (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1984), pl. 38. Illustration, pl. 38.|Samuel Lysons, 'Account of Further Discoveries of the Remains of a Roman Villa at Bignor in Sussex', Archaeologia 19 (1821): 176-7.|Samuel Lysons, 'Account of the Remains of a Roman Villa, Discovered at Bignor, in Sussex, in the Years 1811, 1812, 1813, 1814, and 1815', Archaeologia 18 (1817): 203-21.|Samuel Lysons, Reliquiæ Britannico-Romanæ, Containing Figures of Roman Antiquities Discovered in Various Parts of England 3 vols. (London: Cadell and Davies, 1813-17), 3: 1-6. Illustrations, pls. V, VII-IX.|Thomas Morgan, Romano-British Mosaic Pavements: A History of Their Discovery and a Record and Interpretation of Their Designs (London: Witing & Co., 1886), 203.|William Page ... [et al.], eds., The Victoria History of the County of Sussex 9 vols. (London, 1905-1937), 3: 20-3. Illustration, pl. opp. p. 22.
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-10-30T21:38:17.408Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-25T11:21:26.369Z