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At the Foot of the Acropolis, Athens

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Date

1831

Artist

Clarkson Stanfield (1793-1867)

Collection

Chris Beetles Gallery

Description

Seven years after the death of Lord Byron in 1824, the engraver, William Finden, decided to issue Finden’s Landscape Illustrations to the Life and Works of Lord Byron. He commissioned such eminent watercolourists as Clarkson Stanfield and J M W Turner to produce the images, and provided them with sketches of places that they had not visited, notably those of Greece by William Page, who travelled in both Greece and Turkey in the years 1816-24. The completed three-volume set, with texts by William Brockendon, was published by John Murray in 1833-34.
The present view of the Acropolis, in Athens, was probably produced as part of this project. The published volumes include illustrations of the Acropolis by Turner (after Thomas Allason) (in volume 1) and by J D Harding (after C R Cockerell) (in volume 2), and also of the Parthenon, in particular, by William Page (in volume 3).

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image © Chris Beetles Ltd

Location

Acropolis of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Buildings & Architecture

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