Title
View of the Erechtheion. Workmen excavating to reveal the base of the prostasis underneath the Caryatids. Ottoman official Dizdar Aǧa is leaning on his son-in-law's shoulder while two other Ottomans are supervising the excavations in order to keep him informed and to ensure that the British are not carrying away the archaeological findings. On the foreground a man, probably James Stuart, drawing the monument.
Alternative Title
A View of the west end of the Temple of Minerva Polias, and of the Pandrosium.
Date
1787
Bibliographic Citation
STUART, James / REVETT, Nicholas. The Antiquities of Athens measured and delineated by James Stuart F.R.S. and F.S.A. and Nicholas Revett painters and architects, vol. II, London, John Nichols, 1787.
Table Of Contents
22
Area/Place
Greece
Attica
Athens
Subject
Architecture and built environment
Art and antiquities
Collection
Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation Library