- Title:
- Plan of the Ruins at Sardis with Vestiges of Ancient Buildings Still Existing in 1750
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Materials & Techniques:
- Black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 x 21 1/4 inches (38.1 x 54 cm), Image: 8 x 12 7/16 inches (20.3 x 31.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "7 | III"; in brown ink, upper left: "VI."; in black ink, center right, in scroll: "PIANTA DELLA CITTA' DI | SARDES | CON | ALCVNI VESTIGJ DI PIV | FABRICHE ANTICHE | ANCORA ESISTENTI | NELL ANNO | 1750"; in brown ink, within image: labels A-Q; in black ink, lower center: labeled scale and "Perche Inglesi"; on back, center right: "N. 11"
watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with "WR" [Wendelin Riehel of Basle] in monogram (Churchill 408)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.928
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- acropolis | architectural subject | buildings | cartographic material | forts | gymnasium | Lydian | map | mariner's compass | river | ruins | scale (rule) | scroll (motif) | site plan | stadium | temple | theater
- Associated Places:
- Ege kiyilari | Manisa Ili | Pactolus | Sardis | Temple of Artemis | Turkey
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27009
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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The City of Sardis : Approaches in Graphic Recording (Harvard Art Museums, 2003-08-23 - 2003-11-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Twenty-Five Years of Discovery at Sardis (Harvard Art Museums, 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-18) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John A. Pinto, Speaking ruins, Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome , University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2012, opp. p. 217, pp. 233,234, fig. 162, NA1120 .P56 2012 (YCBA) [YCBA]