architectural drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2012,5004.5.48
- Title
- Series: Elgin Drawings
- Description
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Verso: plan of the theatre at Mantinea, stone wall elevation, and section through two seats, with measurements and notes
Graphite and pen and ink, on pale blue paper
- Production date
- 1800-1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 462 millimetres (Album cover)
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Height: 228 millimetres
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Width: 364 millimetres (Album cover)
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Width: 180 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.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
- 2012,5004.5.48
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Prints and Drawings
