Description

Summary: Mahogany and pine Celtic cabinet veneered in elm and maple. Eleven of its front panels are glass fronted to display watercolour drawings, ten of which survive today. All the watercolours are of megalithic monuments in Wiltshire, Wales and the west. Most are related to pencil drawings by Underwood, Prout, Hyett and Cattermole. Integral to the design of the cabinet are three models of Stonehenge and Avebury made by Henry Browne. The cabinet was acquired in 1853 as part of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society's founding collection from the topographical writer John Britton.