Panorama of Athens, ca. 1880.

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Visual material
Description
1 v. ; 24.5 x 33 cm.

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Getty AAT genre
    Compiled/​Created
    ca. 1880.
    Summary note
    Folding panorama consisting of six mounted albumen prints (20.9 cm x 24 cm. each); the first and the last prints affixed to the inside front and back cover and the remainder mounted on card-stock leaves joined accordion style with cloth tapes, forming a continuous panoramic view of the city of Athens, Greece and the surrounding classical and Byzantine monuments. Included are the Theseion [Hephaisteion] on the second print, a photograph taken from the hill of Philopappus; the Lycabettus Mount with the church of Saint Georgios on top of the hill (third print) and the Greek Parliament in the background; the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens (in the foreground of the Parliament); the Acropolis with the Parthenon (fourth and fifth prints); the Sacred Way; and the Hill of Philopappus with its ancient Greek mausoleum (sixth print). Images date the decade of 1880s.
    Notes
    Title in pen on cover from a later date.
    Binding note
    MSS copy bound in a plain cardboard folder; title written in pen, in French, on the cover.
    Source acquisition
    Gift: Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund. Acc. no. 2009-127.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    Panorama d'Athènes (Grèce).
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