architectural drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2012,5004.5.6
- Title
- Series: Elgin Drawings
- Description
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Study of architectural elements of Sicyon theatre, with measurements; top right: longitudinal section
below: longitudinal section through vomitorium
below: longitudinal section through central axis
bottom right: profile of step
verso left and right: plan of remains of Roman thermae, stadium and theatre at Sicyon
Graphite and pen and ink, in a folded paper
- Production date
- 1800-1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 462 millimetres (Album cover)
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Height: 295 millimetres
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Width: 364 millimetres (Album cover)
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Width: 412 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.266
- 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
- 2012,5004.5.6
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Prints and Drawings