print;
book;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Hh,13.4.59
- Title
- Object: Equestrian figures from the northern frieze of the Parthenon, Elgin Saloon, 63
- Description
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From the frieze of the Cella of the Parthenon; south side; the third stone; young men riding in cavalcade, left to right; on the left, a bare-headed figure, naked except for a cloak fastened over the right shoulder, leaning back and drawing his right arm behind him, a cloaked figure to right with right knee bent; illustration to Stuart and Revett's "The Antiquities of Athens" volume IV (London, 1816) chapter 4, plate XII; early state with publication line. 1810
Etching
- Production date
- 1810
- Dimensions
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Height: 223 millimetres
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Width: 273 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See Hh,13.48.(4).
The plates in this chapter follow the order of the index plate, Vol, II. ch. 1, pl. XXX.
Woods notes that this stone was in Elgin's collection and that it is also shown in the first part of plate XII of this chapter.
Title from 1852,1009.998.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Antiquities of Athens
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,13.4.59
