Critick in Antiquity
Sir John Clerk of Penicuik
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3780108 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Iain Gordon Brown (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 203 |
| Pages | 201-210 |
| Publication date | 1977-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00071714 |
| OpenAlex | W2244323498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 8 |
Some 300 years ago, in 1676, the year of Sir John Clerk's birth, Roger North, the biographer, visited Hadrian's Wall. He was disappointed with what he saw: 'it appeared only as a range or bank of stones all overgrown with grass, not unlike the bank of the Devil's Ditch at Newmarket, only without any hollow, and nothing near so big' (Birley, 1961, 9). In 1754, the year before Clerk died, William Stukeley had an audience of the Princess Dowager of Wales at Kew House
Ancient history · Art · Art history · Nothing · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · History · Philosophy
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Hadrian's Wall
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Gothicism, ignorance and a bad taste
Prehistory and the Romantic Movement
The Ancestors of Jonathan Oldbuck
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 2017 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |