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Captain Fothergill

fl. 1872–1931 · United Kingdom

Ship's captain, active 1872–1931.

Life and work

  1. 1872
    Presented to the Liverpool museum a considerable collection of large and small heads, nearly all of men and broken from small statues, a few small headless statues, and two inscribed (or named) objects (Nos. 4 and 5), from Cyprus

    LiverpoolGatty 1883Ulbrich & Kiely 2012, p. 18

Connections

2 people

Sales, gifts & bequests

Scholarship

Objects

  • Cypriot limestone heads and small statues (a considerable collection; most heads with fillets or wreaths)

    Liverpool Public Museums (now World Museum Liverpool)1872Gatty 1883Ulbrich & Kiely 2012, p. 18

  • Cypriot inscribed object(s), 'of late date', catalogue Nos. 4 and 5, compared by Gatty to Cesnola's Cyprus p. 54

    Liverpool Public Museums1872Gatty 1883

Sources

  1. 1.Anja Ulbrich, Thomas Kiely (2012). “Britain and the Archaeology of Cyprus. I. The long 19th century”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42. Online
  2. 2.Charles T. Gatty (1883). “Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities in the Mayer Museum, Liverpool”. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 34. Liverpool, Adam Holden. Online