drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2010,5006.1878.32
- Description
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Drawing from an album of 67 prints and drawings of bronzes and sculptures; bronze mirror incised with a winged Lasa seated on a stele; to her right is Aphrodite and the boy Aeneas (?); round the design is a laurel wreath; the handle terminates in a deer's head (BM 1814,0704.916)
Pen and ink. Volume tooled in gold on spine "DRAWINGS AND PRINTS MADE FOR C. TOWNLEY. / BRONZES AND SCULPTURES / DEPT. OF G. & R. ANTIQUITIES"
- Production date
- 1768-1805
- Dimensions
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Height: 459 millimetres (album cover)
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Height: 431 millimetres
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Width: 333 millimetres (album cover)
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Width: 301 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
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For the prints see 2010,5006.1878.34 and 1865,0610.1309.
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Album (2010,5006.1878.1-67), consists of 67 prints and drawings, most of which are representations of objects which belonged to Charles Townley. The album is bound in brown leather and tooled in gold on spine "DRAWINGS AND PRINTS MADE FOR C. TOWNLEY. / BRONZES AND SCULPTURES / DEPT. OF G. & R. ANTIQUITIES".
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1814
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2010,5006.1878.32
