Book of Benefactors

Richard Rawlinson Esq. LLD, Fellow of the Society ...

Latin Text:

RICARDUS RAWLINSON, Arm: L.L.D. Soc: Antiq: Soc: Exemplaria duarum Venetorum Navicularum unum P

Translation:

Richard Rawlinson Esq. LLD, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, left the Museum models of two kinds of small Venetian boat, one known as a Paeota, the other a Gondola. He also gave a white Moscovy fox. To these he added an Indian litter called a palanquin.

Related Objects:Pitt Rivers Museum 1886.1.1672 .1-3 (gondola) (formerly AN1836 p.174.9), Pitt Rivers Museum 1886.1.399 (palanquin)

Location:Transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum in 1886. The palanquin is on display at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Ground Floor. Case 46.A - Land and Air Transport Models.

Year:MDCCLVII (1757);  Page Number:22 (recto)