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Image number: RS.9368
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The Roman wall at York
Date
1683
Creator
Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 195mm
width (drawing): 303mm
width (drawing): 303mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape view of York city wall, with multiangular tower and St Mary's Abbey Church ruins. Inscribed below in ink: "an exact view of the ruines of a piece of Roman Wall & multangular Tower at Yorke. 1683."
Original plate illustration for the paper "Some observations upon thre Ruins of a Roman Wall and Multangular Tower at York", by Martin Lister, Philosophical Transactons of the Royal Society, vol.13 no.149, pp.237-242.
Original plate illustration for the paper "Some observations upon thre Ruins of a Roman Wall and Multangular Tower at York", by Martin Lister, Philosophical Transactons of the Royal Society, vol.13 no.149, pp.237-242.
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