Doric Gallery

Grecian and Roman architectural moldings

Grecian and Roman architectural moldings.. Grecian and Roman architectural moldings. Greek fillet listel annulet, cyma recta, fascia, echinus ovolo, talon enriched, astragal, Doric, cavetto and torus, and Roman Scotia, cantaliver and Corinthian modillion. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820

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The Propylaea, entrance to the Acropolis, Athens, Greece

View of the Propylaea, entrance to the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. At right, the Temple of Athena Nike, and at left, the building with the paintings of the Greek painter Polignotus. I Propilei. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giovanni Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Il Costume Antico e Moderno, Florence, 1826

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The gate and military barracks at Pompeii

Excavation of the city gates of Pompeii, and military barracks with Doric columns, buried under volcanic ash from Vesuvius. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after J.B. Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802. Date:

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