| Samuel Lysons: An Account of Roman Antiquities
discovered at Woodchester in the County of Gloucestershire. London 1797.
Illustrations taken from the book. |
Further illustrations taken from Lysons' book:
| The complete design of Orpheus Pavement. |
| Part designs of various aspects of the pavement |
| Samuel Lysons: Born 1763, died 1819. Antiquary; FSA 1786; FRS 1797.
Barrister at the Inner Temple 1798; keeper of the Tower of London records
1803; vice-president and treasurer of the Royal Society 1810; antiquary
professor in the Royal Academy 1818. Assisted his brother Daniel Lysons
on the Magna Britannia. His greatest work is deemed to be Reliquiae
Britannico-Romanae, containing figures of Roman Antiquities discovered
in England, with plates, was published 1807-17.
Source: The Concise Dictionary of National Biography |
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