drawing
- Museum number
- 1874,0314.226
- Description
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Altar of Diana; side and back views of the altar discovered in Cheapside.1846
Watercolour with graphite, with touches of white, on brown paper
- Production date
- 1846
- Dimensions
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Height: 221 millimetres
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Width: 176 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a large series of drawings and watercolours of buildings and antiquities in London by John Wykeham Archer, in 17 portfolios (mostly stored offsite); for further information on the series, see registration number 1874,0314.1*.
This drawing of an altar discovered in December 1830 while excavating for the new Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, Cheapside is from Portfolio I - Roman remains, the old wall of London.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Vestiges of Old London (by John Wykeham Archer, 1851, pl. IX)
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0314.226