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Add MS 36718(505)

Record Id:

041-003239189

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003238807

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100026879933.0x00017f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 36718(505)

Title:

[Cnidus. Sheerlegs employed to move the lion sculpture.] Photographer: McCartney, J.

Scope & Content:

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 face to the beach below, where it was loaded on board ship for transportation to England. This operation was successfully accomplished on 1 July 1858. For a watercolour showing the crate being lowered, see Mss. Add. 31980 (199). The lion sculpture now stands in the Great Court of the British Museum.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003238807
040-003239055
041-003239189

Is part of:

Add MS 31980 : DRAWINGS, plans, and photographs of excavations at Halicarnassus (Budrum), Cnidus, and Branchidæ, and of sculpture and…
Add MS 31980(390) : [Sculpture fragments, (?) from Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Bodrum.] Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.

Add MS 36718(505) : [Cnidus. Sheerlegs employed to move the lion sculpture.] Photographer: McCartney, J.

Hierarchy:

032-003238807[0248]/040-003239055[0134]/041-003239189

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 31980

Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Photograph
Photographic Print
Salted Paper Print
Silver Printing-Out Paper Print

Start Date:

1858

End Date:

1858

Date Range:

1858

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