- Title:
- Architectural Drawings of the Remains of the Temple of Sunias Minerva, in Attica
- Part Of:
Collective Title: A Collection of Continental Drawings, From a Set of Four Sketchbooks, 1802-1804
- Date:
- 1803
- Materials & Techniques:
- Graphite, pen and brown ink on medium, moderately textured, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 1/16 × 19 1/8 inches (38.3 × 48.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "Temple on the Unsium Promentory"; inscribed in graphite, upper right: "II/74"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, right side of interior of folded sheet, upper left: "Fragment of a Molding round | the interior of the | Portico [even] withthe | job of the architecture"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, right side of interior of folded sheet, center: "Capital of the Columns."; inscribed in pen and brown ink, right side of interior of folded sheet, center right: "The Frieze of the Entabler | Part of the Cornice"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, right side of interior of folded sheet, lower left: "Fragment of a Molding | Remains of the Temple of Sunia Minerva | Attica-July 1803-"
Watermark: "G Pike | 1801"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.514
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:26686
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Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781–1867, British, Architectural Drawings of the Remains of the Temple of Sunias Minerva, in Attica, 1803
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