Drawing of a potter working in a landscape

Collection type: Object
Description: Drawing of a potter working in a landscape
Long description: Large drawing by Alfred Robinson showing a landscape featuring at its centre a potter at work, with a kiln and a shelter for the finished pots also visible, presumed to have been made to illustrate a lecture by E. B. Tylor
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 Alfred Robinson (presumed); Field collector Edward Burnett Tylor; PRM source Edward Burnett Tylor
Date / Period: Date made: Circa 1888-1898
Date collected: By 1917
Acquisition information: Donated: 1917 Found unentered: 01/1944
Materials and processes: Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Drawn
Object numbers: Accession number: 1944.1.85.25
Research and responses: This is a large drawing by Alfred Robinson showing a landscape featuring at its centre a potter at work, with a kiln and a shelter for the finished pots also visible, as well as other details relating to the work of the potter, presumed to have been made to illustrate a lecture (or lectures) by E. B. Tylor. [PG 4/03/2014]