WALDSTEIN, C., THE ARGIVE HERAEUM

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WALDSTEIN, C., THE ARGIVE HERAEUM
Boston, 1902, 2 vols, with circa 114 plates, vol I on geology, architecture, marble statuary and inscriptions, vol II includes terracottas, vases, bronzes, gemstones and Graeco-Egyptian, Ex Libris Bernard Ashmole; Fougères, G., L'Acropole d'Athènes: Le Parthénon, Paris, 1910-13, in two folio volumes, 136 plates including photographic plates by Fred Boissonnas, in cloth-backed printed boards; and Strommenger, E., Fünf Jahrtausende Mesopotamien, München, 1962 (5)

Provenance

Item one: Bernard Ashmole (1894-1988), Greek sculpture scholar and Yates Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of London; Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, The British Museum; and advisor to J. Paul Getty on his classical acquisitions.

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Lot Essay

Item one: see lot 38 for a Neo-Attic marble relief fragment previously in the Walston (formerly Waldstein) collection, and for a biographical note.
Item two: the first of a two-part photographic survey of the Acropolis and its sculptural details. Fred Boissonnas (1858-1946) was born in Geneva, the son of a photographer, whose laboratory he inherited in 1888. He first visited Greece in 1903 and in subsequent years travelled extensively photographing both its people and historical sites. His images were used to represent the country's culture at the 1919 Paris Exhibition. His Greek archive has now been acquired by the Greek Cultural Olympiad.

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