An apology for the colouring of the Greek Court in the Crystal Palace (1854)
Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 · London : Crystal Palace Library : And Bradbury & Evans, 11, Bouverie Street · leaf 19
17 COLOURING OF THE GREEK COURT. THE PANATHENAIC FRIEZE. I have placed in the gallery behind the Greek and Homan Courts, casts from the Elgin frieze of the British Museum,* … for the express purpose of showing how it might possibly have been coloured. * The casts obtained from the British Museum were first fixed in their place ; the missing portions were then supplied, by inserting casts of portions of the frieze found perfect in other parts of it. Thus, when a head,…
Crystal Palace (Sydenham, London, England) · Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) · Architecture, Greek -- Exhibitions · Decoration and ornament -- Greece -- Exhibitions · Exhibitions buildings -- England -- London · Grekisk arkitektur · Världsutställningar -- historia -- Storbritannien -- 1800-talet · Architecture, Greek · Decoration and ornament · Greece
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