1944.1.14.5

Collection type

Object

Description

Watercolour painting of a 'cromlech'

Long description

Large watercolour painting, titled 'CROMLECH', presumed to have been used to illustrate a lecture

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Cultural groups

English

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1884

Date collected

By 1884

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884, uncertain Found unentered: 01/1944

Materials and processes

Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Painted, Process Drawn

Object numbers

Accession number: 1944.1.14.5

Research and responses

This is a large watercolour painting, titled 'CROMLECH', presumed to have been used to illustrate a lecture (or lectures), possibly by General Pitt-Rivers. [PG 22/01/2014]

It was photographed in December 2013 as part of the DDF-funded 'Excavating Pitt Rivers' project by Ian Cartwright (Institute of Archaeology photographer). [Dan Hicks 21/03/2014]

It is worth noting that the seven paintings in this series [1944.1.14.1 - .7] have been produced by the same (unidentified) artist, using the same type of paper, at (one supposes) around the same time. It is possible to imagine, therefore, that the six smaller paintings [1944.1.14 .1 - .6] have been produced to demonstrate a development (or at least show various different forms) from the simplest type of burial or memorial mound, i.e. the barrow, to more advanced/later forms, here culminating in the most complex structure shown, which is also the largest of the paintings, 'Stonehenge' [1944.1.14 .7]. [PG 04/03/2014]

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