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Photograph of the Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion Dimitrios Constantin
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Details
- Artist/maker
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Dimitrios Constantin (active c. 1850 - c. 1870) (photographer)
- Object type
- photograph
- Material and technique
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 273 x 370 mm (print); 285 x 374 mm (mount)
- Associated place
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- Europe › Greece › Attica › Athens › Athens › Acropolis › Erechtheion › Erechtheion (subject)
- Inscription
- Within the photograph, bottom centre, apparently scratched into the negative and so printing black: D. Costantin [sic] à Athènes
On the back of the mount:
bottom left, in graphite, written up the sheet: 22.B
below centre, the Ruskin School's stamp
- Provenance
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Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.
- No. of items
- 1
- Accession no.
- WA.RS.ED.035
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Subject terms allocated by curators:
Subjects
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References in which this object is cited include:
References
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Smith, Elder, 1871), cat. Educational no. 22.B
Ruskin, John, Catalogue of the Educational Series (London: Spottiswoode, 1874), cat. Educational no. 35
Ruskin, John, ‘The Ruskin Art Collection at Oxford: Catalogues, Notes and Instructions’, Edward T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds, The Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition, 39 (London: George Allen, 1903-1912), 21, cat. Educational no. 35
Location
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- Western Art Print Room
Position in Ruskin’s Collection
Ruskin's Catalogues
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Ruskin's Educational series, 1st ed. (1871)
22 B Present state of Erechtheium. P -
Ruskin's Educational series, 2nd ed. (1874)
35. Present state of Erechtheium. P
