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Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian, Details of a Doric Order from the Forum of Halicarnassus and Details from a Temple in Geyna, ca. 1750
- Title:
- Details of a Doric Order from the Forum of Halicarnassus and Details from a Temple in Geyna
- Date:
- ca. 1750
- Materials & Techniques:
- Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 21 1/16 x 14 3/4 inches (53.5 x 37.5 cm), Image: 12 5/16 x 8 inches (31.3 x 20.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "88 | 77"; in brown ink, upper left: "LXXXV."; within image: labels I-IV; lower center: of this Dorick there stand's [...] Columns in a straight line, is if belonging to a Forum, of Hallicarnassus, the rest is of Geyra"
watermark: Strasburg lily with "VDL" [Van der Ley] in monogram
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.960
- Classification:
- Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- ancient Greek | architectural subject | columns | Doric order | entablatures | forum | moldings | temple
- Associated Places:
- Asia | Ege kiyilari | Halicarnassus | Mugla Ili | Turkey
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27038
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