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- Title:
View of the Theater and Plan of the Ionic Temple at Sardis
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Medium:
- Watercolor with black and brown ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper with gray wash
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 1/4 x 14 15/16 inches (54 x 38 cm), Image: 12 1/2 x 8 1/16 inches (31.7 x 20.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "9"; in brown ink, upper left: "VIII [crossed out and replaced in graphite with '7']"; in graphite, upper center: "View of the Theatre at Sardis"; in brown ink, center left: "VIIII."; within both upper and lower images: labels A-E and various measurements; in black ink, lower center: "scale"; in graphite, lower centerL "Plan of the Ionic Temple at Sardis"; in brown ink, on back, lower center: "the pillars mark'd black are standing or in ye view those mark'd with lines not so black just appear above ground | and those dotted are supposed | NIII"
watermark: Strasburg bend and lily with "WR" [Wendelin Riehel of Basle] in monogram (Churchill 408)
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.929
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | cliffs | hills | Ionic | landscape | Lydian | mountains | ruins | scale (rule) | site plan | temple | theater
- Associated Places:
- Asia | Ege kiyilari | Manisa Ili | Sardis | Turkey
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27010
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