Brass instrument
Date
1709
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Creator - Organisation
The Royal Society, Publisher
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Technique
Subject
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Description
Figure depicting a brass instrument discovered in Yorkshire, thought to be an ancient axe or arrowhead.
Illustration to ‘IV. A letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Sec. concerning some ancient brass instruments found in Yorkshire’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 26, issue 322 (August 1709). Original proof of this image can be found in Letter Book of the Royal Society, LBO/14/99, and copied into Letter Book Copy, vol. 14, p.257.
Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), British antiquarian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and; Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.
Illustration to ‘IV. A letter from Mr. Ralph Thoresby, F. R. S. to Dr. Hans Sloane, R. S. Sec. concerning some ancient brass instruments found in Yorkshire’ in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 26, issue 322 (August 1709). Original proof of this image can be found in Letter Book of the Royal Society, LBO/14/99, and copied into Letter Book Copy, vol. 14, p.257.
Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), British antiquarian, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697, and; Hans Sloane (1660-1753), Irish physician and collector, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685.
Related fellows
Ralph Thoresby (1658 - 1725, British) , Antiquary and Topographer, Antiquary
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