architectural drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2012,5004.5.71
- Title
- Series: Elgin Drawings
- Description
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Study of architectural elements of the theatre at Epidauros, with measurements and notes;
centre: sketch of seat fragment
above and below: sketch of two stone weights
verso top left: front elevation of bench for seat of honour
top centre: profile of first steps of staircase
top right: outer wall detail
further right: perspective of bench for seat of honours
centre: longitudinal section through stair
centre left: bench profile for seat of honour
bottom: perspective of stair steps and bench for seat of honour
Graphite and pen and ink
- Production date
- 1800-1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 462 millimetres (Album cover)
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Height: 279 millimetres
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Width: 364 millimetres (Album cover)
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Width: 379 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
- 2012,5004.5.71
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Prints and Drawings
