Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17329

    Small drawing on page of inscriptions

    Date
    10 October 1675
    Creator
    Francis Vernon (1632 - 1677, British) , Traveller, Traveller
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p24v
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 295mm
    width (page): 187mm
    Subject
    Description
    Small drawing within a page of Greek inscriptions. This drawing is found in the journal by Francis Vernon of his travels in the Eastern Mediterranean, kept between 1675 and 1676.
    Object history
    'Mr. Vernon's journal of his travels is extant among the papers of the Royal Society, being found among those of Dr. Hooke, as appears from a letter of Dr. Richard Mead to the Revd. Mr. Edmund Cheshull. This journal, which contains only short and imperfect notes, but a great number of inscriptions, begins at Spalatro, July 8, 1675, and ends at Ispahan, September 14, 1676. The advantage, which Mr. Vernon's travels might have been of to the public, was prevented by his unfortunate death near Ispahan in Persia in a contest with some Arabs about an English pen-knife, which he refusing to give them, they fell upon him and cut him to pieces. His body being conveyed to that city was interred there' (Birch 3:357-58).
    Associated place
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