drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2012,5019.1.39
- Description
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Drawing from an album of drawings of antiquities, formerly belonging to Edward Dodwell;
Part of a marble lekythos with a scene showing a youth (Polystratos) clasping the hand of the seated woman (Archagora), while another woman (Pithyllis) stands mourning. Formerly in the collection of the 7th Earl of Elgin, now in the British Museum (BM Cat. Sculpture 695)
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash. Volume tooled in gold on spine "ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF GREEK ANTIQUITIES. / DODWELL. / DEPT. OF G. & R. ANTIQUITIES."
- Production date
- 1805-1819 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 235 millimetres (album cover)
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Thickness: 41 millimetres (album cover)
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Width: 200 millimetres (album cover)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The album (2012,0519.1.1-86) consists of 86 sheets of drawings of antiquities, several of which were found or purchased by Edward Dodwell. It is bound in brown leather and tooled in gold on spine "ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF GREEK ANTIQUITIES. / DODWELL. / DEPT. OF G. & R. ANTIQUITIES.". Inside is the bookplate of Edward Dodwell, and inscribed in graphite: "80 pp. containing over 200 drawings of Greek antiquities by E. Dodwell & others" and in another hand on the following page: "Orig. Drawings by Dodwell for his work on Greek Vases".
This lekythos is engraved in Edward Dodwell, 'A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806', (London, 1819), Vol. 1, p.455
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1962
- Acquisition notes
- Officer's Reports 30 March 1962
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2012,5019.1.39