drawing;
plan;
print study
- Museum number
- 2012,5033.49
- Description
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Plan of a tomb in the northern Necropolis of Cyrene; preparatory drawing for plate 33 in Smith and Porcher, 'History of the Recent Discoveries at Cyrene', 1864
Pen and ink, with grey and brown wash on a sheet of paper watermarked 'J WHATMAN 1864'
- Production date
- 1864
- Dimensions
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Height: 328 millimetres
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Width: 486 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- There are pin holes at various points in the drawing, in order for a copy to be made.
Robert Murdoch Smith and Edwin Augustus Porcher, 'History of the Recent Discoveries at Cyrene, made during an Expedition ot the Cyrenaica in 1860-61, under the auspices of Her Majesty's government' (London, 1864)
Dorothy M. Thorn, 'The Four Seasons of Cyrene: The Excavation and Explorations in 1861 of Lieutenants R. Murdoch Smith, R.E. and Edwin A. Porcher, R.N.' (Rome, 2007), pp.181-204
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Acquisition notes
- See Officers Reports 7 June 1894
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2012,5033.49