An Investigation of the principles of Athenian Architecture : or the results of a recent survey conducted chiefly with reference to the optical refinements exhibited in the construction of the ancient buildings at Athens
Francis Penrose's 1851 survey of Athenian architecture, published in London under the Society of Dilettanti, records measured investigations of ancient Greek buildings at Athens, including their subtle optical refinements. The pictures are fine wood-engraved views of Athenian ruins and columns, with Doric shafts, a Corinthian capital and scaffolded temple fragments set against distant hills. A designer might take from them the crisp hatched linework of nineteenth-century antiquarian reportage and the classical column vocabulary of Doric and Ionic orders.
