Charles Hercules Read; a tribute on his retirement from the British museum and a record of the chief additions to the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography during his keepership, 1896-1921 (1921)
London · leaf 9
drew.s.1913. Fellow of the British Academy.1917-19. President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (for the secondtime).1919. President of the Society of Antiquaries of London (for the secondtime). Art Library CAROLO HERCVLI READ QVIINTER MVSEI BRITANNICl PROCVRATORES PER SPATIVM V LVSTRORVM… … DESIGN ON THE COVER . This represents a bronze knocker of the twelfth centur}-, probably made inthe first instance for an abbey church. From some time before 1500 until about1900 it was fixed to the front door first of the old, afterwards of the new,dwelling-houses on the farm called after it…
Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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