drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2012,5019.1.75
- Description
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Drawings from an album of drawings of antiquities, formerly belonging to Edward Dodwell; study of sixteen ancient coins
Pen and ink on nine pieces of paper stuck down onto a sheet of paper. Volume tooled in gold on spine "ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF GREEK ANTIQUITIES. / DODWELL. / DEPT. OF G. & R. ANTIQUITIES."
- Production date
- 1805-1819
- Dimensions
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Height: 235 millimetres (album cover)
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Thickness: 41 millimetres (album cover)
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Width: 200 millimetres (album cover)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The album (2012,0519.1.1-86) consists of 86 sheets of drawings of antiquities, several of which were found or purchased by Edward Dodwell. It is bound in brown leather and tooled in gold on spine "ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF GREEK ANTIQUITIES. / DODWELL. / DEPT. OF G. & R. ANTIQUITIES.". Inside is the bookplate of Edward Dodwell, and inscribed in graphite: "80 pp. containing over 200 drawings of Greek antiquities by E. Dodwell & others" and in another hand on the following page: "Orig. Drawings by Dodwell for his work on Greek Vases".
The coin in the bottom row on the left is engraved in Edward Dodwell, 'A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806', (London, 1819), Vol. 2, p.444: '...The money of this place [Kleitor] has yet been known. I purchased a sliver coin at Kalpaki, the ancient Orchomenos, which in all probability belonged to Kleitor. It exhibits the radiated head of Apollo, and on the reverse the bos cornupeta, or butting bull. Inscrip. KΛH....'
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1962
- Acquisition notes
- Officer's Reports 30 March 1962
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2012,5019.1.75