{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O833928"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O833928/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2017JU1634/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2017JU1634/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2017JU1634","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O833928/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O833928","accessionNumber":"E.609-1916","objectType":"Drawing","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Watercolour drawing, varnished to resemble the surface appearance of an encaustic tile.  Copy of 13th century encaustic tiles found during excavations at Chertsey Abbey,  \r\nSurrey in 1861. Four sections of frame tiles, two bordered with grotesques and two with \r\nfragments of an inscription from an early romance poem, <i>Sir Tristrem</i>. The inscription is continuous and should form the two arcs of a semi-circle.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Shurlock, Manwaring","id":"A39948"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"varnish","id":"AAT14974"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing","id":"x32498"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour drawing on paper","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2017JU1634"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLD","id":"THES49658"},"free":"","case":"C","shelf":"103","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}],[{"text":"drawing","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"late 19th century","earliest":"1850-01-01","latest":"1899-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"40.6","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"39.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from Lambert, Susan. <u>Drawing: Technique & Purpose</u>. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1981.","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Morgan et se gens tourne en Engleterre’","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Morgan and his attendants return to England","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Two sections of frame tiles bordered with fragments of an inscription from an early \r\nromance poem, <i>Sir Tristrem</i>."}],"objectHistory":"This object is one of a set given by the Architectural Association on the 7th August 1916. They were formerly part of the collection of the Royal Architectural Museum in Tufton Street.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Watercolour drawing, varnished.  Copy of 13th century encaustic tiles found during excavations at Chertsey Abbey, Surrey, 1861.  Manwaring Shurlock; British.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Lambert, Susan. <u>Drawing: Technique & Purpose</u>. London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1981. p.68."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"grotesques","id":"AAT10211"},{"text":"poetry","id":"AAT55931"},{"text":"encaustic tiles","id":"x34672"},{"text":"abbeys","id":"AAT642"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.609-1916"],"accessionNumberNum":"609","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1916,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-05","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}