print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Hh,13.3.119
- Description
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Illustration to Stuart and Revett's "The Antiquities of Athens" volume III (London, 1794); chapter 12, plate I; from a ruin near the Tower of the Winds at Athens: 'Fig. 1' elevation of the remaining part, showing that there were at least three arches; 'Fig. 2' plan; 'Fig. 3' capitals of the pilasters with the profile of the archivolt; 'Fig. 4' profile of the impost mouldings; 'Fig. 5' section through the entablature, which is probably incomplete; 'Fig. 6' spandrel with the rose; 'Fig. 7' profile in the centre between the two capitals of the pilasters showing how the mouldings finish against the background.
Etching
- Production date
- 1794
- Dimensions
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Height: 409 millimetres
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Width: 299 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This chapter, like several in the third volume, was left incomplete at Stuart's death and gathered together from his papers by Reveley. This seems to be one of the plates he had made up from sketches, given the producer details and his note that he could find no sketch for a large piece of cornice which Stuart mentions finding among ruins near the arch of Hadrian.
The building described in this chapter was inhabited by a Turkish widow of good reputation, so the travellers were unable to examine more than the external face. Stuart states that a fragment of an inscription proves it to have been a public edifice and its form shows that it was not a temple. They were unable also to research much of the Gymnasium of Ptolemy, because Turkish residences had been built among the ruins of it, so he only indicated its location and shape in his map of Athens.
See Hh,13.11.(3) for more information on the contents and publication of this volume and Hh,13.8.(4) for general information on the Antiquities.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Antiquities of Athens
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,13.3.119