![[Ruins of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion.] Temple on Cape Colonna.](jpegs/47443.jpg)
[Ruins of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion.] Temple on Cape Colonna.
[D. Costantin á Athens]
[n.d., c.1860.]
Albumen silver print, mounted on album paper, titled in English in pencil. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15").
An early photograph of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion, 40 miles south-west of Athens, at the southernmost tip of Attica. Built c.440BC in the Doric style, it has Byron's name carved into one of the columns; although Byron mentions Sounion in his poem 'Isles of Greece' ('Place me on Sunium's marbled steep...') there is no evidence that he carved it. Another column is now in the British Museum.
[Ref: 47443] £250.00
[n.d., c.1860.]
Albumen silver print, mounted on album paper, titled in English in pencil. 280 x 380mm (11 x 15").
An early photograph of the Temple of Posidon at Cape Sounion, 40 miles south-west of Athens, at the southernmost tip of Attica. Built c.440BC in the Doric style, it has Byron's name carved into one of the columns; although Byron mentions Sounion in his poem 'Isles of Greece' ('Place me on Sunium's marbled steep...') there is no evidence that he carved it. Another column is now in the British Museum.
[Ref: 47443] £250.00