Vue de la Lanterne de Démosthène à Athènes (View of the Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens), from Les Ruines des Plus Beaux Monuments de la Grece (The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments in Greece)
Jacques Philippe Le Bas, French, 1707 - 1783
1770
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 14 3/4 × 20 5/8 in. (37.5 × 52.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of Professor Harry E. Burton, Class of 1908H
PR.945.35.2
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left: Le Roy Arch. del. in Graecia.; center: Vue de la Lanterne de Demosthene a Athenes.; lower right: Le Bas Sculp.; right edge: PL. XIII
Course History
HIST 47, The French Revolution, Darrin McMahon, Spring 2019
Provenance
Professor Harry Edwin Burton (1868-1945); given to present collection, 1945.
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