Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Intaglio, steel engraving - SCARCE original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print, actual: 1857
- Publisher: Dr. E.A. Menzel, Osterreichischen Lloyd, Triest
- Condition: 1 (1.
Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair).
- Dimensions: 8 x 10.5 inches (20 x 26.5 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1.
Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background
on which the print was photographed. 2. Print detail is much sharper
than the photo of the print.
Original Narrative:
" After leaving the walls, and passing over corngrounds, rugged and
interrupted by ravines, at about a furlong distance you come to a flat
paved area, evidently artificially raised, as may be seen from some
foundation walls on the eastern side, and towards the channel of the
Ilissus, which passes at a hundred paces to the south. On this stand
the sixteen fluted Corinthian columns of the building finished by
Hadrian, called by some the Pantheon, and by others the Temple of
Jupiter Olympius. " The stupendous size of the shafts of these columns
(for they are six feet in diameter, and sixty feet in height,) does not
more arrest the attention of the spectator than the circumstance of
there being no fallen ruins on or near the spot, which was covered with
one hundred and twenty columns, and the marble walls of a temple
abounding in statues of gods and heroes, and a thousand offerings of
splendid piety. " The solitary grandeur of these marble ruins is,
perhaps, more striking than the appearance presented by any other
object at Athens; and the Turks themselves seem to regard them with an
eye of respect and veneration."—Hothouses Journey. " According to
Stuart's plan, it had, when entire, (one hundred and twenty-four
large columns, and twenty-six smaller ones within the cella. It
stands upon a foundation of the soft Piraean stone, like the Parthenon.
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