Richard Pococke's Beschreibung des Morgenlandes und einiger anderer Länder: Vom Heiligen Lande, Syrien, Mesopotanien, Cypern, und Candien
Richard Pococke's travel account of the Near East, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus and Crete, edited by Johann Friedrich Breyer and translated by Christian Ernst von Windheim, published in German in 1771 for readers interested in archaeology and topography. Its engraved plates show classical temple architecture drawn in precise line, with elevations, plans and ruined colonnades rendered in fine hatching and shadow. A designer could take from them the clean orders of columns, pediments and stepped bases, and the even, measured linework of eighteenth-century architectural engraving.
