The antiqvities of Athens
The Antiquities of Athens is a 1762 London folio of architectural survey plates by James Stuart, Nicholas Revett and later contributors, recording classical Greek buildings in Athens for architects and students of antiquity. Its engraved pages show measured capitals, cornices, balusters and a frieze fragment drawn in fine line with figure and scale notes. A designer can take from them the precise profiles of Corinthian and Ionic mouldings and the clean stone-relief vocabulary behind neoclassical ornament.
