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BPLDC no.: 08_04_000414

Page Title: Acropolis. Beulé Gate. Propylaea. Temple Nike

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 3: Athens.

Call no.: 4098B.104 v3 (p. 31)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Genre: Scrapbooks; Albumen prints

Extent: 1 photographic print mounted on page : albumen ; page 33 x 39 cm.

Description: Scrapbook page contains one photograph of the Beulé Gate, Propylaea, and Temple Nike at the Athens Acropolis. Annotated information describes the history and architecture of the site.

Transcription: Beulé Gate 5 1/2 ft wide excavated 1853 by French savant Beulé. Date erection uncertain but of late period. Bastions Turkish. "A road running zig zag up the slope, practicable for chariots led from the lower city to the Acropolis on the edge of the platform of which stood the Propylaea. On entering the gates a scene of unparalled [sic] grandeur and beauty met the eye. No trace of human dwellings anywhere but on all sides temples of Pentelic marble beautiful in design and exquisitely delicate in execution sparkled like piles of alabaster in the sun. On the left stood the Erectheion orfane of Athena Polias, on the right that matchless edifice the Parthenon. Other buildings all holy to the Athenian lay grouped about these master structures and in the open spaces were statues some remarkable for their dimensions, others for their beauty and all for their legendary sanctity. Our best filled museums are poor collections of fragments compared with the assemblage of gods and heroes which peopled the Acropolis." J. A. St John. The Hellenes.

Notes: Page description supplied by cataloger, derived from captions and/or annotated information.; Caption on image: 21

BPL Department: Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

Flickr data on 2011-08-26:

• Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
• License: CC BY 2.0
• User: Boston Public Library Boston Public Library