Title
Part of a Roman Pavement found in the church-yard at Wood-chester near Minching Hampton in Gloucestershire : The length is about 120 feet compos'd of small bricks of about 1/2 inch square of several colours, so artfully set together that they yield an agreable variety of figures of Beasts & birds & the circle A is feet now about 6 feet under ground - this was first delineated & colour'd in August 1722 by Richd Bradley. / Priscilla Combe del.
Creator
Combe, Priscilla, artist.
Publication details
[after 1756 and probably about 1780]
Physical details
1 drawing : pen and brown ink with watercolour ; sheet 31.3 x 19.6 cm
Description
A drawing depicting part of the 'Orpheus' mosaic pavement found at Woodchester; a peacock, wolf and tiger depicted. Title inscribed in brown ink above image. Extensive inscription below image reads: Part of a Roman Pavement found on the Church Yard of Woodchester in the County of Gloucester, the external circle is terminated by a square in ye taste of the mosaic pavement lately found at Stunsfield in the county of Oxford - the whole is said to be supported by small arches many of which have been lately broke by the Sexton - the stones or bricks which form ye different figures are about 1/2 an inch square & those which form the square on the outside are about an inch - the Pavement intire is about 141 feet long. The earth was dug at ye expence of Edmund-Brown Bodborough Esqr & this design was drawn & colour'd on the spot by R. Bradley. Caylus Recuil d'Antiquities tome 2d Pag: 408, Publica 1756"."
Place
Gloucestershire (England)
Additional information
The drawing by Richard Bradley to which Combe refers is in the British Library, Hans Sloan's Collection, Ad Ms 5238, page 3. The extensive inscription below the image in this drawing at Maps K.Top.13.101.c. is taken and translated from 'Recueil d'antiquite_s egyptiennes, etrusques, grecques et romaines' by the Comte de Caylus, 1756, page 407-8. This drawing is probably copied from the illustration of the mosaic in 'Recueil d'antiquite_s' Pl.CXXVI and not from the Bradley original as suggested in the 1829 and 1844 catalogues.
Shelfmark
Maps K.Top.13.101.c.