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The Lewis Chessmen
The drawing shows front and back views of a king and a queen from the set of Lewis chessmen. The king holds a sword across his knees, the queen holds a drinking horn.
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
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
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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
- Scotland
- Uig
- United Kingdom
- Western Isles
- …
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
- Outer Hebrides
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/uf46-2
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. XLVI, opp. p. 214.|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
- 2020-10-26T02:53:22.909Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-23T22:20:57.607Z