Les antiquités d'Athènes
Les antiquités d'Athènes is a French architectural survey of Athens published in Paris in 1808, compiled from the measured drawings of James Stuart, an 18th-century British architect and antiquary, and issued for students and scholars of classical building. Its plates are engraved measured drawings of Greek columns, capitals, entablatures and wall courses, drawn in plan and elevation with dimension lines and lettered keys. A designer can take from them the clean proportional logic of the Doric and Ionic orders, with their fluted shafts, scroll capitals and stepped bases, as a reference for classical ornament and grid-based layout.
