- Title:
- The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevation of the Doric Entablature and Roof Section
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Pen and black and red ink, graphite and watercolor on slightly textured, moderately thick, white wove paper with one fold mark bar scale of 13/16 inch to 1 foot
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/2 × 16 13/16 inches (31.8 × 42.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, center right: "for Proof that the Fleurons were not over the | ante of the mutules see the upper face of the | Cornice showing the irons aa, measured in | many instances - see draw.g of Lion's Head | & stone on the centre of the Ped. | b. First Tile is of Pa[...]san Marble, the others of | fine yellow Tile 2.03 7/8 by 1.10 3/8 | c. Square Piece let with the top fo the Cornice 12 3/4 | by 4 1/2 and is each joint of the Tiles in all the | Fragments of Cornice one piece only was remaining | the others showing holes to receive them"; in pen and red ink and graphite, left, dimenisons given; inscribed on verso in graphite, calculations given
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.2.815
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | design | Doric | Entablature | roof | temple
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2008, p. 16, V1880
Pearls to pyramids : British visual culture and the Levant, 1600-1830 [wall labels], Yale Center for British Art, 2008, pp. 35-36, V 2576 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:8107
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Charles Robert Cockerell, 1788–1863, British, The Temple of Aphaia at Aegina: Elevation of the Doric Entablature and Roof Section, undated
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