Eighty-two reconstruction illustrations and seven general illustrations depicting monuments and landscapes from the Stonehenge World Heritage Site, which encompasses Stonehenge and its surrounding monuments, Woodhenge, Durrington Walls henge and numerous other prehistoric monuments. They date from 1957 to 2016, and have been created mainly for inclusion in guidebooks produced for the site, or for on-site information panels or displays.
The earliest illustration dates to 1957 and was created by Alan Sorrell; it depicts the final phase of Stonehenge. There are eight reconstruction illustrations from the 1980s by Ivan Lapper which depicts Stonehenge and the surrounding landscape throughout its development. William Brouard also created six reconstruction illustrations in c.1985 which depict Stonehenge, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls.
In the 1990s Ivan Lapper created a set of five phased aerial views of Stonehenge throughout the various phases of its construction development. There are sixteen illustrations created in the early 2000s by illustrators Peter Dunn and Liam Wales. These drawings once again depict Stonehenge, Woodhenge and Durrington Walls throughout their construction phases as well as numerous related views of construction and components. There are two similar illustrations by Dunn and Wales respectively that depicts the various forms of Bronze Age barrows found within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. There is a group of thirty-one small simple reconstruction illustrations and general illustrations, created in May 2013 by John Ronayne. These illustrations were created with the intention of being reproduced at a much-reduced scale as part of a 'timeline of Stonehenge' graphic diagram in the 2013 site guidebook.
New archaeological evidence uncovered over time at this complicated range of sites has led to new reconstruction illustrations being commissioned to disseminate the evolving interpretations of the evidence through the site guidebooks; this is why there are seemingly similar groupings of illustrations within this set.
There is also a group of fifteen 'born-digital' illustrations created in 2013 for the Stonehenge Visitors Centre Project and new guidebooks. These are illustrations created digitally, and therefore no equivalent physical drawing is held in this archive. This group includes two digital orientation illustrations created by Bob Marshall, two aerial reconstructions of the Stonehenge circle by Marcus Abbott, and eleven reconstructions of Stonehenge, Durrington Walls and Woodhenge created by Peter Lorimer.
There are also twenty-six black and white and one colour preliminary sketches and some additional backup material.
This is part of the Series: EHC01/146 English Heritage Reconstruction and Artwork Collection; within the Collection: EHC01 English Heritage(EH):Archive
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Illustrator: Lorimer, Peter
Illustrator: Marshall, Bob
Illustrator: Abbott, Marcus
Illustrator: Brouard, William
Illustrator: Ronayne, John
Illustrator: Wales, Liam
Illustrator: Dunn, Peter
Illustrator: Lapper, Ivan
Illustrator: Sorrell, Alan Ernest
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