print
- Museum number
- 1913,0331.207
- Title
-
Object: View of the Parthenon from the Propylea
-
Series: Views in Greece
- Description
-
The ancient temple seen from below, with houses before it and two bearded figures amongst ruins in the foreground, one sitting with a pipe at right; after Edward Dodwell, from Part 2 of his series, trimmed to image. 1819
Hand-coloured aquatint
- Production date
- 1819
- Dimensions
-
Height: 244 millimetres
-
Width: 396 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- In addition to his two-volume history of his travels, in 1821 Dodwell published Views in Greece. This work, issued in parts, placed more emphasis on image than on text. It comprises thirty coloured aquatints, each with its own description. The sheet shown here is a view of the Parthenon seen from the Propylaia. The aquatints were based on finished watercolours, many of them in the exhibition held at the British Museum in 2013 'In search of Classical Greece' for which there was a publication by Packard Humanities Institute (the author was John Camp with K Sloan and I Jenkins).
According to Abbey titles were printed on slips attached to the back of the mounts of prints in the series. The slip for the present print would have read, "Drawn by E. Dodwell; Engraved by J. Bailey; Coloured by W. H. Tims: London, published November 1 1819 by Rodwell and Martin, Bond Street"
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2013 Feb-Apr, BM, 'In Search of Classical Greece: Travel Drawings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi, 1805-1806 '
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1913,0331.207
