Walls of Circaei
| Reference: | s30209 |
| Author | Edward DODWELL |
| Year: | 1834 ca. |
| Zone: | Circeo |
| Printed: | London |
| Measures: | 470 x 340 mm |
€200.00
| Reference: | s30209 |
| Author | Edward DODWELL |
| Year: | 1834 ca. |
| Zone: | Circeo |
| Printed: | London |
| Measures: | 470 x 340 mm |
€200.00
Description
View taken from "Views and Descriptions of Cyclopian or Pelasgic Remains in Greece and Italy ...", published in London, Adolphus Richter and Co., in 1834. The work included 131 lithographs, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel, from original drawings by Dodwell during his tour in Greece and Italy, made in the years 1801, 1805 and 1806. The series is dedicated to the polygonal or cyclopean walls. The walls are visible in many Italian town spread into a wide area which spans from Umbria to Campania. Lithograph, number 109 in the series, in an excellent state of preservation.
Edward DODWELL (Dublino, 1767 – Roma, 14 maggio 1832)
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Was an Irish painter, traveller and a writer on archaeology.
Painting of the bazaar at Athens, by Dodwell.
"West Front of the Parthenon", Views in Greece, London 1821Dodwell was born in Ireland and belonged to the same family as Henry Dodwell, the theologian, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dodwell travelled from 1801 to 1806 in Greece, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire, and spent the rest of his life for the most part in Italy, at Naples, and Rome. He died at Rome from the effects of an illness contracted in 1830 during a visit of exploration to the Sabine Mountains. Dodwell's widow, a daughter of Count Giraud, thirty years his junior, subsequently became famous as the "beautiful" countess of Spaur, and played a considerable role in the political life of the papal city.
Dodwell published A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece (1819), of which a German translation appeared in 1821; Views in Greece, with thirty colored plates (1821); and Views and Descriptions of Cyclopian or Pelasgic Remains in Italy and Greece (London and Paris, with French text, 1834).
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Edward DODWELL (Dublino, 1767 – Roma, 14 maggio 1832)
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Was an Irish painter, traveller and a writer on archaeology.
Painting of the bazaar at Athens, by Dodwell.
"West Front of the Parthenon", Views in Greece, London 1821Dodwell was born in Ireland and belonged to the same family as Henry Dodwell, the theologian, and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dodwell travelled from 1801 to 1806 in Greece, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire, and spent the rest of his life for the most part in Italy, at Naples, and Rome. He died at Rome from the effects of an illness contracted in 1830 during a visit of exploration to the Sabine Mountains. Dodwell's widow, a daughter of Count Giraud, thirty years his junior, subsequently became famous as the "beautiful" countess of Spaur, and played a considerable role in the political life of the papal city.
Dodwell published A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece (1819), of which a German translation appeared in 1821; Views in Greece, with thirty colored plates (1821); and Views and Descriptions of Cyclopian or Pelasgic Remains in Italy and Greece (London and Paris, with French text, 1834).
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