- Museum number
- 2016,5005.7
- Description
-
Sketch-book bound in yellowish card. Inscribed 'No. 4' on front cover and with list of contents.
Inside front cover: sketch of flame palmette antefixae and part of the frieze of The Temple of Apollo at Didyma and an ancient Greek inscription at Rhodes, pen and ink and graphite, inscribed ‘Apollo Didymaeus’ and ‘This is at Rhodes’.
F1r Sketch of Rhodes with the so-called Devil’s Tower, pen and ink and graphite, inscribed ‘Devils Tower / Rhodes’.
F1v Sketch of the Murat Reis Mosque and surrounding tombs on Rhodes, graphite, inscribed ‘Rhodes’.
F2r Sketch of the Murat Reis Mosque and surrounding tombs on Rhodes, graphite with pen and ink, inscribed ‘Rhodes’.
F2v Two views from Marmara to Cape Alopou, north of Rhodes, pen and ink and graphite, inscribed ‘At Rhodes / Marmara / Karagatsch / Syme / Bar. Nicolo / C. Alopou / Loryma / [?] / Tazo’.
F3r View from Rhodes of the entry of the Sinus Glaucus or Gulf of Telmessos [Gulf of Fethiye] with Mount Cragus visible in the background, graphite, inscribed ‘cadmus / Macri / Cragus / 7 capes’.
F3v Sketches of the traditional costumes of the islands of Symi, Kasos and Karavi [thought to have been the ancient Chalcia], graphite and watercolour, inscribed ‘Syme / Casso / Chalcia / Syme’ and with colour notes. F4r Plan of the coast of the Perae Rhodiorum [Rhodian Peraea or Peraia], graphite, pen and ink and watercolour, inscribed ‘Marmara’ and other place names.
F4v Two views of Rhodes, graphite, inscribed ‘Belvidere / Ialyssus [Ialysos], Villanova [Paradeisi] / Rhodes.
F5r View of Marmaris [Physkos], graphite, inscribed ‘Marmara’.
F5v View of the Aga’s house, Marmaris, graphite, inscribed ‘Aga’s House Marmara’.
F6r View of the mosque and Aga’s house at Marmaris, graphite, inscribed ‘Marmara’.
F6v View of Marmaris, graphite, inscribed ‘Mermer’.
F7r Sketch of the NW coast of Rhodes, graphite, inscribed ‘[?] Pal Rhodi / Villanova / Rhodes’.
F7v View of Marmaris, graphite and watercolour
F8r Blank.
F8v View of Marmaris, graphite, pen and ink and watercolour, inscribed ‘Mermer’.
F9r Blank.
F9v View of the Monastery of St. Michael Panormitis on Symi, graphite, inscribed ‘Syme / built in 1783 / St Michael Panermiotis’.
F10r Blank.
F10v View of the court and church of the Monastery of St. Michael Panormitis on Symi, Graphite, inscribed ‘Syme / Oct 16’.
F11r Blank.
F11v View of the exterior of the Monastery of St. Michael Panormitis on Symi, pen and ink and graphite, inscribed ‘Syme’.
F12r Blank.
F12v View of the exterior of the Monastery of St. Michael Panormitis on Symi, pen and ink and graphite, inscribed ‘monastery of the golden Goose’.
F13r Blank.
F13v View of a church at Vathy on Samos, pen and ink and graphite, inscribed ‘Church at Vathi Samos’.
F14r Blank.
F14v Sketch of houses at Vathy on Samos, graphite and pen and ink, inscribed ‘Houses at Vathi. Samos’.
F15r Blank.
F15v View of Mount Mycale, pen and ink and graphite, inscribed ‘Mycale’.
F16r Blank.
F16v View of the New Mosque at Sukui.
F17r Blank.
F17v View of the village of Sukui, pen and ink, inscribed ‘Sukui’.
F18r Blank.
F18v View of Gumeush, pen and ink with traces of graphite underdrawing,
Inscribed ‘Gumeush’ and with bearings at top.
F19r Blank.
F19v Sketch of ancient fragments at Magnesia.
F20f Sketch of frieze at Magnesia.
F20v sketch of mosque at Magnesia, graphite, inscribed ‘At Magnesia or Inek Bazar’.
Back inside cover: sketches including a sheep of Cyprus, an agnus castus plant, the headdress of a woman of Scio and map of the port at Rhodes, pen and ink and graphite, inscribed with notes on bearings and ‘agnus castus / Scio / Sheep of Cyprus’.
- Production date
- 1812
- Dimensions
-
Height: 165 millimetres (sketch-book cover)
-
Width: 122 millimetres (sketch-book cover)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2016 (20 Jul)
- Acquisition notes
- This sketch-book was part of a collection of material relating to the Society of Dilettanti sponsored second Ionian expedition and had been on long-term loan to the British Museum since December 1952.
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 2016,5005.7
