British School at Rome: Papers of the British School at Rome (9.1920)

PAPERS OF THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME.
Vol. IX. No. 8.

A BRONZE PLAQUE IN THE ROSENHEIM
COLLECTION.
By Mrs. ARTHUR STRONG.
The bronze plaque with bust portrait of Aristotle reproduced on
Plate XXV. by kind permission of its present owner, Mr. Maurice
Rosenheim, was once the property of the English College in Rome-
the venerable institution whose history has recently been made the
subject of an important and exhaustive monograph by His Eminence
Cardinal Gasquet.1 An illustration of the plaque taken from the same
photograph as the present plate, together with brief notes contributed
by Dr. Ashby and myself, has already been given2 in His Eminence’s
book. Dr. Ashby’s note appears in the earlier part of the book, which
was already printed off when my own note, written after the re-discovery
of the plaque, was sent in. The later account, therefore, could only
be hurriedly inserted on the eve of publication, without time for a
proof, and I gladly take this opportunity of amplifying and
correcting it.3
The old label still attached to it shows that the plaque already
1 A History of the Venerable English College, Rome. By Cardinal Gasquet. London,
1920.
2 By permission of the Faculty of Archaeology of the British School at Rome.
3 The substance of the present note appeared in the Cardinal’s book, where, however,
Dr. Ashby’s account and mine should have been unified, had there been time in which
to see the proofs.

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