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The Lewis Chessmen
The drawing shows twelve ornamented areas from various pieces from the set of Lewis chessmen. They areas illustrated are all squarish, and decorated with scrolls, acanthus, arcading, and animal ornament.
Creator
- Basire, James
- British Museum
- Londesborough, Albert Denison, Baron
- Madden, Frederic, Sir
- Museum of Scotland
Subject
- Drawings
- archaeology
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Creator
- Basire, James
- British Museum
- Londesborough, Albert Denison, Baron
- Madden, Frederic, Sir
- Museum of Scotland
Subject
- Drawings
- archaeology
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
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Rights
- Basire, James|British Museum|Londesborough, Albert Denison, Baron|Madden, Frederic, Sir|Museum of Scotland
Temporal
- 12th century
- Medieval
- 11XX
- 12th century
Places
- British Museum
- Europe
- Isle of Lewis
- Museum of Scotland
- Scotland
- Uig
- United Kingdom
- Western Isles
- …
- United Kingdom
- Isle of Lewis
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Utensils and Furniture
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/utensils_and_furniture/uf47-1
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- Bill Wyman and Richard Havers, Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands: Britain's History Uncovered (Stroud: Sutton, 2005), pp. 245-7. Illustration, pp. 246-7.|English Romanesque Art, 1066-1200: Hayward Gallery, London, 5 April - 8 July 1984 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984), no. 212, p. 227. Illustrations (Photographs), pp. 72 and 227.|Frederic Madden, 'Historical Remarks on the Introduction of the Game of Chess into Europe, and on the Ancient Chess-Men Discovered in the Isle of Lewis', Archaeologia 24 (1832): 203-91. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XLIX, between pp. 236 and 237.|John Beckwith, Ivory Carvings in Early Medieval England (London: Harvey Miller & Medcalf, 1972), no. 166. Illustrations (Photographs), figs. 261-265.|Virginia Glenn, Romanesque & Gothic Decorative Metalwork and Ivory Carvings in the Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh : NMSE Publishing, 2003), pp. 149-77. Illustrations (Photographs), pp. lxi, 149-77.
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-01-18T10:20:19.092Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-25T11:21:26.369Z