Description
Signed: "Carelli Atene / Febraio 1839". Mounted with a printed excerpt from "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage" by Lord Byron (1812), Canto II, Stanza VI: “Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall,/ Its chambers desolate, and portals foul:/ Yes, this was once ambition's airy hall,/ The dome of thought, the palace of the soul:/ Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole,/ The gay recess of wisdom and of wit,/ And passion's host, that never brook’d control:/ Can all saint, sage, or sophist ever writ,/ People this lonely tower, this tenement refit?” From: "Album No.5, Carelli's Sketches, 1839, Sicily & the East".
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image © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees.
Location
Erechtheion, Athens, Greece
Country
Greece
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Buildings & Architecture