Athènes: décrite et dessinée, suivie d'un voyage dans le Péleponèse
Athènes: décrite et dessinée is an 1862 French travelogue on archaeology and topography by Ernest Breton, describing Athens and a journey through the Peloponnese for a general reading public. Its engravings show ancient Greek ruins, including a small Ionic temple, a city wall of large cut blocks, and the caryatid porch, drawn in clean line with heavy hatching. A designer could take from them the stone-block masonry, fluted columns and classical ruin silhouettes as reference for architectural forms.
