Vetusta Monumenta
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Vetusta Monumenta is the title of a published series of illustrated antiquarian papers on ancient buildings, sites and artefacts, mostly those of Britain, published at irregular intervals between 1718
Roman mosaics from Wellow, near Bath, Somerset: double-page spread in volume 1, in an 1826 reprint
Pit Mead Roman villa mosaic, illustrations by Catherine Downes, engraved by James Basire and presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Daines Barrington
George Vertue
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George Vertue was an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period.
Vetusta Monumenta
…Notices on illustrations mention the following engravers: George Vertue, engraver to the society. Produced a drawing of the Holbein Gate in 1724, his 1727 engraving appears in volume 1, 1747. Other works include the portrait…
1733 portrait of Vertue by Jonathan Richardson
The Gate at Whitehall (Holbein Gate) in Vetusta Monumenta Vol.1, 1747 (1826).