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Topographical Drawings in the British Museum illustrating Classical Sites and Remains in Greece and Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2013

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The British Museum drawings indexed below, though in almost all cases admirably catalogued, are scattered through the four departments of Prints and Drawings (P. & D.), Greek and Roman Antiquities (G. & R.), Manuscripts (MSS.), and Printed Books (P.B.). They are here arranged alphabetically under artists' names. I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. A. H. Smith, Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities, for much information concerning the drawings in his care.

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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1912

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page 270 note 1 See especially Madden's Catalogue of MS. Maps, Charts, and Plans and topographical Drawings in the British Museum, vol. iii., which contains the sections Mediterranean (pp. 30 ff.), Greece (70 ff.), and Turkey (260 ff.), and Binyon, 's Catalogue o Drawings by English Artists, (19001907)Google Scholar.

page 271 note 1 See B.S.A., xii. 211Google Scholar.

page 271 note 2 The drawing is to be referred to the homeward journey as it shews the Khan of Achmet Kuprulu, built 1675–7 (Rycaut, , Hist. of the Turks, 256, 263Google Scholar).

page 271 note 3 Covel says in his text (f. 76) that he had two prospects of Constantinople, one a very large panoramic view by Grelot, the other taken from the Embassy by an Englishman ‘in Sir Paul Pindar's time.’ A receipt for 90 livres received by the artist in payment for the former is to be found in Covel's letters (Add. 22,910 f. 187).

page 271 note 4 Exceptions are drawings of the Cave at Vari and the Castalian Spring, which, with the rest of the pictorial subjects by Pars (twenty-four in all), except the view of the Acropolis exhibited in the Elgin Room, are to be found in the Print Department.

page 271 note 5 For the Dilettanti mission of 1812–13 see Cust, , Hist. of Dilettanti, 149Google Scholar.

page 271 note 6 The volume is said to have perished in a fire.

page 273 note 1 Sketch book XII. contains Spanish subjects.

page 273 note 2 See above, s.v. Covel.

page 273 note 3 The order is taken from the dated sketches.

page 273 note 4 See Durm, in Jahresh. ix. 287 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 275 note 1 Fully described in Madden's Catalogue.

page 275 note 2 See bibliography in Lowndes and in Rohricht, , Bibliogr. Geog. Palestinae, p. 335Google Scholar, Boppe, , Peintres du Bosphore, 220Google Scholar. A few plates (e.g. Budrum) were engraved for the Ionian Antiquities. Ainslie presented many of his books to the British Museum (Cust, , Hist. of Dilettanti, p. 144Google Scholar).

page 277 note 1 Fully described by Binyon, (Catalogue, iii. 118126)Google Scholar. A few others of this series are exhibited at the Tate Gallery (2373–7) but are not archaeological except the fine view of Tlos (2376).

page 277 note 2 Art Union Journal, 1844, pp. 41, 209, 356Google Scholar.

page 277 note 3 Pp. 202 ff. Views of Telmessus, Pinara, Tlos, and Xanthus are reproduced. The artist is said by his biographer to have made upwards of fifty sketches at Athens. Cf. Tate Gallery, 2348–2350.

page 277 note 4 Boppe, A., Peintres du Bosphore, 223Google Scholar.

page 277 note 5 Tweddell's Remains (edn. of 1816), 248 ffGoogle Scholar.

page 277 note 6 Ibid. 267.

page 277 note 7 Ibid. 248, 261, 267; but cf. Boppe, op. cit.

page 278 note 1 Tweddell's Remains, 331. Cf. Clarke, 's Travels, viii. 17Google Scholar.

page 278 note 2 Ibid. 279. Préaux' drawing of the Theseum is engraved p. 300; it had been published as a coloured print in 1815. Other Préaux drawings of Athens, Corinth, Nemea, Rhodes and Constantinople are engraved in the quarto edition of Clarke's Travels,

page 278 note 3 Aberdeen's MS. diary, vol. i. (in G. & R. department of B.M.).

page 278 note 4 Broxbourne, 1812, vol. ii. pt. i. The style (and in some cases the subject) of these is identical with that of the B.M. drawings: in the octavo edition some small vignettes only are engraved.

page 278 note 5 Boppe, p, 202.

page 278 note 6 Op. cit. p. 225.

page 278 note 7 Pll. 33–36 inclusive.

page 278 note 8 Pl. I.

page 278 note 9 Pll. 60, 64.

page 278 note 10 Cf. Martin, Vivien de S., Asie Mineure, ii. 156Google Scholar, where the route is given, and his bibliography, No. 231 (Journal of Ange de Gardane, Paris, 1809Google Scholar).

page 278 note 11 Cf. Vivien de S. Martin, op. cit. ii. 155. Jaubert's Voyage was one of the books illustrated by Préaux, though Trebizond does not figure and all the plates can be paralleled in the Gardane collection of drawings.

page 278 note 12 Described in the (anonymous) Notes d'un Voyage [1827]Google Scholar.

page 278 note 13 Promenades dans Constantinople (1817).

page 278 note 14 Voyage en Arménie (1821).

page 278 note 15 Constantinople (1828).

page 279 note 1 This is the date of the expedition to Iasus described by Wheler and Spon. For the drawings cf. Wheler, 's Voyage, 268Google Scholar.

page 280 note 1 Add. 36,488. See B.S.A. xiii. 214Google Scholar.

page 280 note 2 Introduction to Mr. George Scharf's Illustrations of Lycia, Caria, Lydia, 8°. London, 1847Google Scholar.

page 280 note 3 Lycia, Caria, Lydia, illustrated by Mr. George Scharf, described by Sir Charles Fellows, fol. London, 1887Google Scholar: it contains nine lithographs of Xanthus, Telmessus, Tlos, Myra, and Patara.

page 280 note 4 These drawings were made, Mr. A. H. Smith informs me, for a part of the Museum Marbles which was never published.

page 280 note 5 One is exhibited in the Elgin Room. The series is fully described in Binyon, 's Catalogue (iv. 205–8)Google Scholar.

page 281 note 1 See his Travels, ii. 287Google Scholar.