Eastern Portico of the Parthenon, View Looking Northward, and Showing Mount Parnes in the Extreme Distance

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Eastern Portico of the Parthenon, View Looking Northward, and Showing Mount Parnes in the Extreme Distance

1869 (negative); c. 1870 (autotype)

William James Stillman (American, 1828–1901) Possibly printed by the Autotype Company Possibly published by F. S. Ellis, 33 King Street, Covent Garden

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Object Details

Titles:

Eastern Portico of the Parthenon, View Looking Northward, and Showing Mount Parnes in the Extreme Distance
Possibly plate 15 from the book The Acropolis of Athens, Illustrated Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography (possibly plate from another edition)

Date:

1869 (negative); c. 1870 (autotype)

Artists:

William James Stillman (American, 1828–1901) Possibly printed by the Autotype Company Possibly published by F. S. Ellis, 33 King Street, Covent Garden

Medium:

Carbon print (autotype)

Dimensions:

Image and sheet (irregular): 9 1/2 × 7 7/16 inches (24.1 × 18.9 cm) Mount: 20 7/8 × 13 3/8 inches (53 × 34 cm)

Classification:

Photographs

Credit Line:

Gift of Harvey Stokes Shipley Miller, 2012

Accession Number:

2012-160-13

Geography:

Photograph taken in Athens, Greece, Europe Possibly printed in London, England, Europe

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