1592996973000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-123387 1753812166961 1711377960000 1753812119276 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-123387 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/123387 3bbeecf1-5211-37f1-b3e1-d8ffae99113d 5 reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print reference term-37178 adlib-term-37178 195e7d20-b7d8-353c-9fb1-134597f94bd2 wove paper Support Height mm 629 Width mm 635 Sheet Paintings, Drawings and Prints P.55-R 1 accession number P.55-R 123387 priref 123387 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/123387 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/123387 plate upper centre printed ROMAN TESSELATED PAVEMENT / DISCOVERED IN LEADENHALL STREET / 28TH. DECEMBER 1803. title plate lower centre printed TO THE / HON.BLE COURT OF DIRECTORS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY / THIS ENGRAVING IS BY PERMISSION INSCRIBED WITH THE HIGHEST RESPECT / BY THEIR MOST HUMBLE AND OBEDIENT SERVANT / EDWARD LAPIDGE. dedication plate lower right printed Drawn by E. Lapidge. signature plate lower right printed Engraved by J. Roffe. signature plate lower left printed Scale of Roman Feet. inscription plate lower right printed Scale of English Feet. inscription verso lower centre printed The Remains of this Secimen of Mosaic Work were found at the Depth of Nine Feet Six Inches below the Surface of / the Carriageway Pavement in searching for the common Sewer. It laid in the direction of North-East to South-West, the / South-West Angle of the outer Borber being about Nine Feet distant from the Front of the Eastern extremity of the Portico of the East India / House. The Square dimension of the Ornamented Part here shewn, which forms the Centre of the Pavement, is nearly Ten Roman Feet; / but the extent of the whole Room was probably Twenty-Five Roman Feet square; as the remains of a Roman Wall, evidently forming it's / North-West angle, were found in opening the Ground to the Northward. The common Sewer makes a circular turn close around this Angle. / All the Tesserae are of burnt Clay, except the Purple and Green of the Drapery about the Bacchus which are of Glass. The / Brick, Lime and Pebbles, under which was a very deep bed of Loam on Virgin earth. Part of a human Jaw bone containing two of the / Teeth, together with the Bones of a Finger, were found immediately under the Angle of the Southwest Border, with some Fragments / of Pottery, apparently Part of an Urn. / Great Pains have been taken to render an accurate Copy, preserving the due tint of it's / Colours, and shewing the Form and Manner of place the Tesserae. Those Parts of the Pavement which are defective are here / donoted by having lines drawn across them. The Hon. East India Company with their usual liberality been at the Expence / of taking up the Remains of this Pavement, and they are now deposited in their Library. inscription verso lower centre graphite Presented by E. Lapdige, Esq.r name verso lower right graphite EL initials reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-76041 adlib-agent-76041 24134ddb-fac4-37bb-b0be-b31ae5fe41d3 Lapidge, Edward given Presented after 1803 1803 CE 1803 1803 printmaker reference agent-172366 adlib-agent-172366 ccd6005d-0a32-39d3-8f77-1acd09a5ff68 Roffe, John after draughtsman reference agent-76041 adlib-agent-76041 24134ddb-fac4-37bb-b0be-b31ae5fe41d3 Lapidge, Edward Text verso reference term-106853 adlib-term-106853 25492eb4-1164-35eb-8dce-3601486f3415 19th Century grey, red, yellow, green, blue reference term-106215 adlib-term-106215 ebdec595-b7b5-36bb-8a1b-c8d12b4537af coloured ink reference term-34672 adlib-term-34672 c92093a8-d4e3-36f4-b9b7-632306ca85cb black carbon ink reference term-98032 adlib-term-98032 82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea print reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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