A view of the Incantada
- Title:
- A view of the Incantada
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Creator:
- Stuart, James (English architect, archaeologist, and designer, 1713-1788)
Revett, Nicholas (English architect and author, 1720-1804)
- Creation Date:
- ca. 1790
- ID Number:
- RMC2014_0232
- Catalog Record:
- 4930289
- File Name:
- RMC2014_0232.jpg
- Work Type:
- architectural drawings (visual works)
- Subject:
- Architecture--Greece--Athens
Athens (Greece)--Antiquities
Designs and plans - Description:
- OF A RUIN AT SALONICA, CALLED THE INCANTADA. Fig. 1. A view of the Incantada, taken in the court-yard of a Jew merchant, on whose premises it stands. The figures represent an interview between Consul Paradise and the Jew. The Consul had, with great good nature, insisted on attending us to the Jew's house, the more effectually and more readily to obtain permission for us to measure and design whatever we might find there worthy our notice ; and, as the columns were buried to a considerable depth, to dig where we thought proper. The Jew received us at the door of his court-yard; he was attended by a boy with coffee, which, with great respect, he immediately offered to the Consul; his wife, from a kind of gallery, gently repre- hended her husband for a breach of decorum, by offering his coffee before he had desired the Consul to sit down ; two young women, her daughters, were with her, their curiosity had prompted them to venture thus far, to take a view of their father's visitors. An old woman, who was spinning, approached us with a greater appearance of confidence. The figures, which are seen at a little distance, are Mr. Revett and myself, with my excellent friend young Mr. Paradise, then about ten years old, attended by a Greek, who was dragoman to the Consul.
- Volume/Issue:
- Rare Books NA280 .S93 +++
- Bibliography:
- Stuart, James, and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens. London: J. Haberkorn, 1762. Volume 3, Chapter IX Plate I
- Cite As:
- Stuart, James, and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens. London: J. Haberkorn, 1762.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.