Acropolis, Athens: conjectural coloured decoration on the temples from the Report of the Elgin Marbles Committee, read by W. R. Hamilton at the RIBA on 24 July 1837 Artist/Photographer Hamilton, William Richard (1777-1859) Country Greece City Athens Subject Date -399 Image Date 1837 View Interior Style Greek Medium Drawing Library Reference MS.SP/10/18 opposite p. 8 Orientation Portrait Colour Info Colour Credit RIBA Collections Subject Temples ; Ornament ; Colour
NOTES: The Committee was set up to investigate the use of colour in the original decoration of the sculpture (recently brought from the Parthenon at Athens to the British Museum, London).
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