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YCBA/lido-TMS-27015
http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object
Human-Made Object
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architectural subject
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watercolor
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drawing
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Drawing & Watercolor-Architectural
The Members of a Corinthian Temple in Ruins at Ephesus
Details of a Corinthian Order from the Temple of Ephesus, Probably That of Hadrian
Inscribed in graphite, upper left: "48 | XXXXII."; in brown ink, upper left: "XLVIII."; within image: labels A-C; in graphite, lower center: "The members of a Corinthian Temple in ruins at Ephesus"
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
B1977.14.935
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110163658
Not on view
Yale Center for British Art
41.3080060, -72.9306282
21 5/16 x 15 3/16 inches (54.2 x 38.5 cm)
height
cm
54.2
width
cm
38.5
Sheet
12 3/8 x 8 1/16 inches (31.4 x 20.5 cm)
height
cm
31.4
width
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Image
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production
Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr97040961
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1525816
http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500012641
https://viaf.org/viaf/25413046
Giambattista Borra
Giovanni Battista Borra
Borra Giovanni Battista, 1713–1770
Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770
Italian
1713
1770
male
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Artist
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architect
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draftsman (artist)
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engineer
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writer
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Italian
ca. 1750
1745
1755
22
18th century
Gray wash with black and brown ink over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
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graphite
300014184
laid paper
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brown ink
black ink
gray wash
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
104
https://britishart.yale.edu/node/690
300054766
exhibition
The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century
Yale Center for British Art
Yale Center for British Art
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http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277
British Art Center
Yale Center for British Art
BAC
YCBA
1977
0
300025633
Curator
2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05
2001-05-19
2001-08-05
Yale Center for British Art
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Yale Center for British Art
New Haven
7014210
New Haven
300435424
The eighteenth century in Britain witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of the practice of drawing, among both professional artists and amateurs. This exhibition of one hundred outstanding drawings and watercolors from the Yale Center for British Art celebrated the richness and diversity of its eighteenth century holdings—rivaled only by the great national collections in London—and examined the professional and social roles played by draftsmanship during the period. Among the highlights were works by William Blake, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Henry Fuseli, Thomas Gainsborough, Allan Ramsay, Paul Sandby, and William Hogarth (whose controversial and innovative theory of the “Line of Beauty” suggested the title for the exhibition). — —
Ranging from large-scale highly finished exhibition watercolors to informal sketches intended for private use and enjoyment, the drawings were arranged in illuminating thematic and contextual groupings: the portrait, landscape, the city, science and natural history, sports and amusements, and the life of the artist. — —
Credits — —
Curated at the Center by Scott Wilcox, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Gillian Forrester, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, The Line of Beauty also featured drawing manuals and instructional literature of the period, selected from the Center’s rich collection of rare books.
Yale Center for British Art
27015
4753996
NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
47659793
1541
300054686
publication event
Scott Wilcox, ^Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, ^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 140, no. 118, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
Yale Center for British Art
Scott Wilcox
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Wilcox Scott
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Author
Gillian Forrester, British
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Forrester Gillian
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Author
Morna O'Neill
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O'Neill Morna
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Author
Kim Sloan
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Sloan Kim
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Author
Yale Center for British Art
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http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557
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Yale Center for British Art
300025574
Publisher
2001
2001
2001
New Haven, CT
27015
300157782
acquisition
Yale Center for British Art
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YCBA
BAC
Yale Center for British Art
British Art Center
1977
0
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Owner
1977
1977
1977
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gift
This study of the architectural elements of a Corinthian temple at Ephesus, in modern day Turkey, dates from Giambattista Borra's travels from Robert Wood, (cats. 59, 97). The studies of ancient architectural ruins executed by Borra throughout the course of his journey provided illustrations for Robert Wood's 1753 the Ruins of Palmyra and his 1757 The Ruins of Balebc. This drawing is one of the group of ninety-eight finished drawings in the Center's collection that were intended to illustrate a further publication that was never produced. Attention to ancient architecture was an important part of a gentleman's education. Borra's drawings, engraved and published in Wood's volumes, aided the gentleman in his quest for knowledge and refinement; as Wood himself wrote in The Ruins of Balbec, "we shall…refer our reader almost entirely to the plates, where his information will be more full and circumstantial, as well as less tedious and confused, that could be conveyed by the happiest of language. ---
The careful study of all aspects of classical building provided the cornerstone of the architect's education. Architects like Borra trained as draftsmen in part to produce carefully measured renderings of ancient ruins. He delineates the details of the Corinthian order and its decoration=, following certain accepted standards such as the rendering o both the bottom and the top the column to indicate its tapering, and he provides a rubric to indicate scale. The depiction of different examples of the classical orders or columns was an important aspect of architectural drawing, as each order had its own particular forms and subsequent uses. The Corinthian, shown here, was one of the more elaborate and fanciful orders. Most architects traveled to view the buildings for themselves, while others had to rely on publications and the drawings of others for the education. --- ---
Morna O'Neill --- ---
Wilcox, Forrester, O'Neil, Sloan. The Line of Beauty: British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2001. pg. 140 cat. no. 118
27015
300111999
Published catalog entry
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Morna O'Neill
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Author
2001-05
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capitals
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friezes
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Corinthian order
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architectural subject
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moldings
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temple
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entablature
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caryatids
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ruins
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scale (rule)
Izmir Ili
1001053
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Izmir Ili
38.2500, 27.5000
Turkey
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Turkey
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Asia
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Asia
43.8000, 87.6330
Ephesus
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Ephesus
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Ege kiyilari
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Ege kiyilari
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Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 140, no. 118, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
4753996
NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)
47659793
1541
related to
300055603
500303557
Yale Center for British Art
https://britishart.yale.edu
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
300055598
Public Domain
300435434
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
27015
300133025
Item
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Yale Center for British Art
http://britishart.yale.edu
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IIIF manifest
Yale Center for British Art
500303557
Yale Center for British Art