Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
William Pars, 1742–1782, British
Title:
Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios at Aegina
Date:
between 1764 and 1766
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and black ink, pen and gray ink, pen and brown ink, gray wash, and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 18 inches (29.2 × 45.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in black ink, upper center: "AEGINA.&"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.19425
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
rocks (landforms) | architectural subject | island | trees | temple | colonnade | columns | ruins
Associated Places:
Attikí | Sterea Ellás-Évvoia | Aegina | Greece | Temple of Jupiter Panhellenios
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600–1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-02-07 - 2008-04-28)

Edward Lear and the Art of Travel (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-09-20 - 2001-01-14)
Publications:
Ian Jenkins, The romance of ruins: the search for ancient ionia, 1764, London, 2021, p.43, fig.19, DS156 I6 R66 2021 (YCBA) Oversize

Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels], Yale Center for British Art, 2008, p. 38, V 2576 (YCBA)

Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880

Scott Wilcox, Edward Lear and the art of travel, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2000, pp. 130-131, no. 148, NJ18 L455 W55 2000 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29828