Beschreibung:

FOUR ATTRACTIVE COLOURED EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DRAWINGS IN PEN, INK AND WASHES BY WILLIAM HENRY BROOKE (1772-1860) of an excavation and Anglo-Saxon artefacts in 1818 at Abbey Farm [now called the Eye cemetery] near Broome Hall at Eye in Suffolk, then the seat of the Marquess of Cornwallis, the drawing of the dig depicting two men excavating in a deep pit, with the town of Eye in the distance, inscribed 'Site of the Barrow where upwards of 100 roman [in fact Anglo-Saxon] Urns were found -- Swords [,] small Helmet, Bit of Bridle, Horses Bones &c in a field on the estate of Broome Hall near Eye Suffolk seat of Marquis Cornwallis 21 Oct 1818'; the inscriptions on the drawings of urns and fragments add the names of Mr Cobbold of Ipswich Cliff and Mr Grimes, the Marquess's gamekeeper, who presumably made the discovery and who are perhaps those shown in the main drawing and described as 'modern Goths' in the Gentleman's Magazine, and that one of the globular urns was 'filled with Human Bones half burnt, sand & red Earth', and indicate that the discovery was made in August 1818 while the drawings were made in October that year, four drawings mounted on paper, uniformly mounted, framed and glazed, size of apertures 6 x 8½ inches and 6½ x 8¾ inches, 8¼ x 6¼ inches, overall sizes 10¼ x 12½ and 12½ x 10 inches, Abbey Farm [Eye cemetery] 21 October 1818