Plan of the Ruins at Sardis with Vestiges of Ancient Buildings Still Existing in 1750
Date:
ca. 1750
Materials & Techniques:
Black ink and gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 15 x 21 1/4 inches (38.1 x 54 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "7 | III"; in brown ink, upper left: "VI."; in black ink, center right, in scroll: "PIANTA DELLA CITTA' DI | SARDES | CON | ALCVNI VESTIGJ DI PIV | FABRICHE ANTICHE | ANCORA ESISTENTI | NELL ANNO | 1750"; in brown ink, within image: labels A-Q; in black ink, lower center: labeled scale and "Perche Inglesi"; on back, center right: "N. 11"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.928
Classification:
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
stadium | theater | Lydian | river | acropolis | cartographic material | map | site plan | gymnasium | scale (rule) | buildings | forts | temple | mariner's compass | ruins | architectural subject | scroll (motif)
Associated Places:
Ege kiyilari | Pactolus | Temple of Artemis | Manisa Ili | Sardis | Turkey
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Grecian Taste and Roman Spirit: The Society of Dilettanti (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008-08-07 - 2008-10-27)The City of Sardis : Approaches in Graphic Recording (Harvard Art Museums, 2003-08-23 - 2003-11-30)Twenty-Five Years of Discovery at Sardis (Harvard Art Museums, 1983-11-03 - 1983-12-18)
Publications:
John A. Pinto, Speaking ruins, Piranesi, architects and antiquity in eighteenth-century Rome , University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2012, opp. p. 217, pp. 233,234, fig. 162, NA1120 .P56 2012 (YCBA)