Description
Inscribed lower right: "Capo Colonna. Tempio di Minerva". Mounted with two printed excerpts, one cut from "Don Juan" by Lord Byron (1819-1824), Canto III, Stanza LXXXVI: "Place me on Sunium's marbled steep-/ Where nothing, save the waves and I,/ May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;/ There, swan-like, let me sing and die:”. The second excerpt from "The Giaour" by Lord Byron (1813), lines 7 - 20: “Fair clime! where every season smiles/ Benignant o'er those blessed isles,/ Which, seen from far Colonna's height,/ Make glad the heart that hails the sight,/ And lend to loneliness delight./ There mildly dimpling, Ocean's cheek/ Reflects the tints of many a peak/ Caught by the laughing tides that lave/ These Edens of the eastern wave;/ And if at times a transient breeze/ Break the blue crystal of the seas,/ Or sweep one blossom from the trees,/ How welcome is each gentle air/ That wakes and wafts the odours there!”. From: "Album No.5, Carelli's Sketches, 1839, Sicily & the East".
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Image Credit
image © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.
Location
Temple Of Poseidon, Sounio, Greece
Country
Greece
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Category
Buildings & Architecture
