Album 1
arrow left swipe to the left Visible reflectance photograph Verso of the thirty-eighth sheet, Album 1 activate zoom zoom tool
Leaf 38 verso activate zoom zoom tool
Visible reflectance photograph Lyde Browne vase, decorated with ox skulls, glued in crosswise activate zoom zoom tool arrow right swipe to the right
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Works on this double page

  • Visible reflectance photograph Black chalk drawing of the so-called Lyde-Browne vase with detailed drawn bucrania and festoon ornamentation in frontal view, touched up with red chalk
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Album 1, Leaf 39

This drawing depicts an object known as the Lyde Browne Vase. John Lyde Brown (or Browne) was an English antiquarian and banker who owned one of the largest collections of antiquities in the late 1700s. Most of his collection was sold to Russia and is now held at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, including the vase depicted here. The sheet shows widespread discolouration, a sign that it was once covered in oil to facilitate tracing.

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