architectural drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2012,5004.3.1
- Title
- Series: Elgin Drawings
- Description
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Drawing from volume 3 of the Elgin Drawings, an album of 12 drawings commissioned by Lord Elgin; east elevation of the Temple of Concord, Agrigentum
Pen and ink with grey wash
- Production date
- 1800-1803 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 754 millimetres (album cover)
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Height: 628 millimetres
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Width: 575 millimetres (album cover)
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Width: 1080 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This volume (2012,5004.3.1-12) consists of 12 architectural drawings commissioned by Lord Elgin of the Parthenon in Athens, the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, and the Temple of Concord at Agrigentum, Sicily. It is bound in brown marbled paper and brown leather, and tooled in gold on spine "Dept. of G&R Antiquities Vol. 3 Elgin Drawings".
See:
- Luciana Gallo, 'Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at The British Museum' (CUP 2009), p.58, fig.52
- F. W. Hasluck, 'Topographical Drawings in the British Museum Illustrating Classical Sites and Remains in Greece and Turkey', The Annual of the British School at Athens, No. XVIII, pp.270-281
- F. Madden, 'Manuscript Maps, Charts, and Plans, and Topographical Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. III, (1861), p.78 ff
Unable to embark for Greece because of unfavourable weather and political conditions, Elgin's team of artists spent four months in Sicily working in Agrigento and Syracuse. They made a cast of this sarcophagus which came to the British Museum with the rest of the Elgin collection in 1816. It was registered 1816,0610,401 but cannot now be located. See P. Hunt & A. H. Smith, ‘Lord Elgin and his Collection’, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 36, (1916), p.174-176 and Gallo p.58-9.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1816
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2012,5004.3.1
