drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- Mm,11.9
- Description
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Temple of Nemean Zeus, between Argos and Corinth; ruins lie scattered on flat plain in foreground, two figures and horse approach from l, standing fluted columns to right
Pen and grey ink and watercolour, with gum arabic and some bodycolour
- Production date
- 1764-1766
- Dimensions
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Height: 259 millimetres
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Width: 458 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Engraved by William Byrne for 'Ionian Antiquities', Vol.II, 1797, pl.15.
See Mm, 11.63 for notes from L. Stainton, "British Landscape Watercolours:1600-1860" (BM, exh. cat., 1985) on Chandler and Revett's expedition to Greece and Asia Minor, 1764-66, which Pars accompanied as official draughtsman.
There is a version of this watercolour (and another from this group) in an extra-illustrated edition of Ionian Antiquities in the Gennadius Library in Athens. It has been attributed to Pars but from reproductions, it is flat in comparison to the BM version and may be after it, by a contemporary, rather than Pars, but needs to be seen in detail and comparison made. See Lynda Mulvin, 'charles Robert Cockerell and Ionian Antiquities in the Gennadius Library', in 'A Culture of Translation, British and Irish Scholarship in the Gannadius Library', The New Griffon, 13, Athens, 2012, pp. 101-2 and illustration.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Ionian Antiquities
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Mm,11.9