In Search of Greece :

Camp, John McK., II, 1946-

In Search of Greece : Catalogue of an Exhibit of Drawings at the British Museum by Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi ; from the Collection of the Packard Humanities Institute / Title of exhibition: In Search of Classical Greece John McKesson Camp II ; with contributions by Ian Jenkins, Fani-Maria Tsigakou, Kim Sloan. - Los Altos, California : The Packard Humanities Institute, 2013. - ix, 205 p., 2 unnumbered folded pages of plates : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

This catalog was published in conjunction with the exhibition In Search of Classical Greece: Travel Drawings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi, 1805-1806, on display at the British Museum from February 7 to April 28, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Neil MacGregor and David W. Packard -- Introduction: The Road to Erudite Athens / Ian Jenkins -- Introduction to the Collection / John Camp -- Greece at the Eve of the Nineteenth Century: Poised between Myth and Reality / Fani-Maria Tsigakou -- Seen through a Glass Darkly: Dodwell and Pomardi's Drawings and Watercolors of Greece / Kim Sloan -- Catalogue of Drawings.

This volume serves as a catalogue for the first public display of part of the Packard Humanities Institute's collection of more than 850 drawings done by Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi during their visit to Greece in 1805-6. Dodwell's published studies and drawings did much to stimulate European and particularly British interest in both contemporary and ancient Greece, and the collection is an invaluable record of the country as it was before the War of Independence and the creation of the modern Greek state. The collection shows the antiquities and landscapes at a time when Greece was part of the Ottoman empire, and this volume illustrates the full range of types of drawings in the collection, from quick pencil sketches to fully worked watercolors. The catalogue is accompanied by introductory essays designed to set the collection in its historical, cultural, and artistic context.

9781938325304


Dodwell, Edward, 1767-1832 --Exhibitions
Pomardi, Simone 1757-1830 --Exhibitions


British Museum--Exhibitions


Architecture, Greek, in art--Exhibitions
Drawing--19th century--Exhibitions
Watercolor painting--19th century--Exhibitions


Greece--In art--Exhibitions

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