A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

—HISTOKY OF THE PAKTHENON. 95appeared before the time of Lord Elgin.Several portionsalso of the frieze, which were seen by Stuart, had disappearedat the beginning of the present century. Onthe other hand, the east pediment, being inaccessible,suffered no important change between 1674 and 1800.In the years 1801-3 many of the sculptures of theParthenon were removed to England by the Earl of Elgin,then Biitish ambassador at Constantinople, by means ofa firman obtained from the Porte (see p. 6). The ElginCollection, which includes other marbles obtained fromAthens and elsewhere, together with casts and drawings,was purchased from Lord Elgin by the British Governmentin 1816 for £35,000.Several portions of the sculpturesof the Parthenon have been discovered since the time ofLord Elgin on the Acropolis and its slopes, or in variousparts of Europe, to which they had been taken by travellers.These are represented as far as possible in the BritishMuseum by plaster casts.The following aids to the study of the Parthenon will»be found in the Elgin Eoom :Model of the Athenian Acropolis, showing its conditionin the year 1870. Presented by Prof. Adolf Michaelis.Model of the Parthenon. The model was made byR. C. Lxicas, on a scale of a foot to 20 feet, and representsthe state of the temple in 1687, after the explosion, butbefore Morosini had attacked the west pediment.Carrey's drawings of the pediments. Photographicreproductions of the originals are exhibited.A restored view of the Athenian Acropolis.Bohn.Bibliography of the Parthenon.By RichardThe work of Michaelis, Der Parthenon (Leipzig, 1871), collects thematerial for the study of the Parthenon, and contains an excellentdigest of all that had been written on the subject up to theyear 1871. For later writers, see below passim, and Wolters.