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1. Add MS 36718(505)

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[Cnidus. Sheerlegs employed to move the lion sculpture.] Photographer: McCartney, J.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing the crate containing the colossal lion sculpture being shifted with sheerlegs. A note accompanying photograph reads: 'No. 1. Shows the perilous fix into which the case got.' After being dug up from site and crated, the lion was lowered over the cliff fa...
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Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1858
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1 item

2. Add MS 36718(506)

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Title:
[Cnidus. Sheerlegs employed to move the lion sculpture.] Photographer: McCartney, J.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Similar to preceding. Note accompanying photograph reads: 'No. 2. Shows how we extracted it from those Fauces Candinse.'
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Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1858
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3. Add MS 36718(507)

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Title:
Cnidus. View of colossal lion when first discovered. Photographer: McCartney, J.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing Charles Newton standing beside the recently excavated lion sculpture on the clifftop at Cnidus. A note accompanying photograph reads: 'No. 3. Gives a view of the lion after he had been turned over.' The photograph is reproduced as a tinted lithograph in...
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Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1858
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4. Add MS 36718(508)

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Title:
Cnidus. View of colossal lion after being raised. Photographer: McCartney, J.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing Charles Thomas Newton and a sapper (Corporal Jenkins) posed beside the recently excavated colossal lion. The photograph is reproduced as a tinted lithograph in C.T. Newton, 'A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidae, being the Re...
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Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1858
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5. Add MS 36718(509)

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Title:
Cnidus. View of colossal lion after being raised. Photographer: McCartney, J.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Duplicate copy of folio 508, showing Charles Newton and Corporal Jenkins posed beside the excavated lion sculpture at Cnidus.
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Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1858
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6. Add MS 46890 A(16)

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No. 2. Tessellated pavements excavated in field of H. Captan [Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing a group of sappers, labourers and other expedition members posed on the site of the mosaic pavement. The photograph also shows the framework used for photographing the mosaic pavement (see notes at prints 63 and 169). This is part of a series of ten vie...
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Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1857
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1 item

7. Add MS 46890 A(20)

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No. 6. Great equestrian statue as first seen when discovered in the Mausoleum [Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Excavated sculpture, resting on block and tackle. This is part of a series of ten views enclosed in Newton's despatch no. 11 of 19 March 1857.
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Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1857
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8. Add MS 46890 A(20a)

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No. 7. Fragment of frieze, Mausoleum [Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Sculpture fragment of upper half of male figure. This is part of a series of ten views enclosed in Newton's despatch no. 11 of 19 March 1857. For another copy, see Mss. Add.31980 (89a).
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Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1857
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9. Add MS 46890 A(27)

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No. 1. Staircase, Mausoleum. Upper steps. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography View of the partially excavated staircase, with a sapper (Corporal Jenkins?) standing on the upper steps. One of a series of five views of the steps enclosed in Newton's despatch No. 15 of 3 April 1857. For other copies, see Mss. Add. 31980 (348-349).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
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Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 46890 A(28)

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Title:
No. 2. Staircase, Mausoleum [of Halicarnassus, Bodrum]. Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of excavated flights of steps at the Mausoleum of Haricarnassus. One of a series of five views of the steps enclosed in Newton's despatch No. 15 of 3 April 1857. For another copy, see Mss. Add. 31980 (350).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 item