print
- Museum number
- 2006,U.3429
- Title
- Object: Athens
- Description
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A rectangular composition showing a scene in ancient Athens; Athens; men in classical dress grouped in front of a temple with a portico and pediment, around Pericles, who is seated to right, pointing at a plan of the Propylaia on the Acropolis indicated to him by a man standing at his side and held by a young man; a soldier and another talking to left and two behind the chair, one holding a mask, the other a lyre, with the acropolis in the background; after Stuart; from Ralph Willett, 'A Description of the Library at Merly in the county of Dorset' (London, 1785)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1785
- Dimensions
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Height: 445 millimetres
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Width: 429 millimetres (platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For the series see comment on 2006,U.3412. For other impressions see 1853,1210.376 and 377.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: A Description of the Library at Merly, in the County of Dorset
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2006,U.3429