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The Unedited antiquities of Attica : comprising the architectural remains of Eleusis, Rhammus, Sunium, and Thoricus

Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836, Bedford, Francis Octavius, 1784-1858, Gandy, John P. (John Peter), 1787-1850, Walter, James, Society of Dilettanti (London, England) · 1817 · London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and John Murray · 20 pictures

A 1817 London publication by Sir William Gell, Francis Octavius Bedford, John Peter Gandy and James Walter, produced under the Society of Dilettanti to record ancient architectural remains in Attica for scholars and architects. The plates are measured architectural drawings in pale grey wash and fine line, showing plans, column capitals, entablatures and elevations of Greek temples. A designer could take from them the precise proportions and profiles of Doric and Ionic orders, drawn as flat technical sections rather than pictorial views.

Society of Dilettanti (London, England) · Architecture · Architecture -- Greece · Greece -- Antiquities

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