architectural drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2012,5004.5.14
- Title
- Series: Elgin Drawings
- Description
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Study of architectural elements; left top: prespective view of fragment of sima
left centre: profile of fragment of sima
left bottom: profile of capital
right top: plan of door-jamp of Doric temple
right below: perspective of triglyph, plan of triglyphic, plan of fluted column
right bottom: profile of pediment cornice
verso: plan with measurements of the Greater Propylaia at Eleusis
left: profile of stereobate stone
right: elevation of piece of architrave
right bottom: section through outer cornice
Graphite and pen and ink, in a pale blue paper
- Production date
- 1800-1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 462 millimetres (Album cover)
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Height: 245 millimetres
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Width: 364 millimetres (Album cover)
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Width: 378 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Volume 5 of the Elgin Drawings, an album of 93 working drawings of Sicily, Attia and Morea (Peloponnese)
Volume bound in marbled paper and red leather with gold tooling. Tooled in gold on spine: "Working Drawings / Dept.of G&R / Antiquites Elgin Collection / Vol. 5."
See:
- Luciana Gallo, 'Lord Elgin and Ancient Greek Architecture: The Elgin Drawings at The British Museum' (CUP 2009), p.268-269
- 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,
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1816
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2012,5004.5.14
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Prints and Drawings