architectural drawing;
album;
print study
- Museum number
- 2013,5005.2.39
- Description
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Drawing of details of the theatre of Laodicea, with measurements. Top left: section of the capital continued along the wall of the scene in the spaces between the order of half columns; top right: section through the order of half columns showing the pannel in the soffit of the architrave with its mouldings; centre right: cornice of the podium in front of the scene; bottom right: pedestal probably belonging to the pluteum on which the second order of the scene was placed; centre and bottom left: cornice and pedestal found near these ruins.
Pen and ink on a sheet of paper stuck down on to a second sheet pasted into the volume.
- Production date
- 1764-1765
- Dimensions
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Height: 368 millimetres (first sheet)
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Height: 740 millimetres (volume)
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Width: 255 millimetres (first sheet)
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Width: 530 millimetres (volume)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For a description of this album see 2013,5005.2.1
This drawing is a print study for an engraving in 'Antiquities of Ionia', 1797, Part II, plate LI
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1800 (June)
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2013,5005.2.39