The Elgin marbles from the Temple of Minerva at Athens :
on sixty-one plates, selected from "Stuart's and Revett's Antiquities of Athens" : to which are added, The Report from the Select Committee to the House of Commons respecting the Earl of Elgin's collection of sculptured marbles, and an historical account of the temple.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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London : Printed by J. Moyes for J. Taylor, 1816.
- Subjects
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Elgin, Thomas Bruce,
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Elgin, Thomas Bruce, /
Earl of,
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Elgin, Thomas Bruce, / Earl of, /
1766-1841
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Elgin, Thomas Bruce, / Earl of, / 1766-1841 /
Art collections.
Parthenon (Athens, Greece)
Architecture
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Architecture /
Greece
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Architecture / Greece /
Athens.
Elgin marbles.
Athens (Greece)
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Athens (Greece) /
Antiquities.
Engravings
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Engravings /
England
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Engravings / England /
19th century.
Etchings
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Etchings /
England
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Etchings / England /
19th century.
- Note
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All but three plates (and frontispiece) are double-page. Frontispiece by John Hall after Charles Reuben Ryley. Some plates signed by Thomas Baxter, Daniel Lerpiniere, James Newton, Thomas Stothard or Isaac Taylor as etchers and engravers, some after drawings by William Pars.
- Physical Description
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v, [3], 88 p., [119] leaves of plates (some folded) :
ill. ;
38 cm.
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