[London:]: (Published by Priestley & Weale, High Street, Bloomsbury,), [1828]
Physical Description
6 p., 5 pl.; 533 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[T.p.] - [Text, 'Description Of A Newly Discovered Temple At Cadachio, In The Island Of Corfu'] - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
All plates are signed as drawn by Wm. Railton and engraved by J. Roffe.
Each carries the publishers' imprint of Priestley & Weale, High Street, Bloomsbury.
Summary Note
No publication-date is given, but this copy is recorded as having been presented by the author to the Royal Academy in 1828 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, VII, 266). It was printed to form part of Priestley and Weale's 1830 continuation of Stuart and Revett's 'Antiquities of Athens'.
The work describes the remains of a Doric temple of the 5th century B.C., discovered on Cercyra in 1822 by the engineer, Col. Whitmore. The text includes extracts from Whitmore's account and from an ancient Greek inscription recorded in Maffei's 'Museum Veronense'.
The plates show: 1. Ground plan of the temple; 2. Elevation of the front towards the sea; 3. details of the Doric order; 4, 5. architectural details.
Railton was a student and a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy. His best-known work is Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square.
Provenance
Presented by the author in 1828 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, VII, 266).
Binding Note
20th-century half calf, 19th-century marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Temple At Cadachio ¦ Vulliamy's Ornaments'. Bound with a copy of Lewis Vulliamy's Examples of ornamental sculpture in architecture, [1827].
Subject
Architecture, Greek - Architecture details, Greek - Ruins - Greece - Cercyra - Cadachio - History - 5th century B.C. - Doric
Art history - Archaeology - Reconstructions - Great Britain - 19th century
Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century