Image: Erechtheum on the Acropolis of Athens
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Description: The Erechtheion on the Acropolis of Athens (c. 1805), soon after the looting (1801) of a Caryatid by the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and the replacement of the Caryatid by the Turks with the depicted brick column.
Title: Erechtheum on the Acropolis of Athens
Credit: Views in Greece (Rodwell and Martin: London 1821) p. 39
Author: Edward Dodwell (1767 -1832)
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