drawing;
portfolio
- Museum number
- 1853,0307.776
- Title
- Object: An Orthodox Burial at Athens in 1821
- Description
-
Drawing from a portfolio; Greek Orthodox commemorative service for the departed (kolyva) in Athens; four priests with censers, women, children; in the background a house with a balcony (centre) and the east wall of a Byzantine church (left); explanatory text in German. 1821.
Pen
- Production date
- 1821
- Dimensions
-
Height: 213 millimetres
-
Width: 309 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a description of the portfolio see 1853,0307.720.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1853
- Acquisition notes
- The drawings in the portfolio were part of a large collection of topographical drawings left by W. Gell to his friend the Hon. Keppel Craven.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1853,0307.776