• Vue d'un tombeau antique, dit le tombeau d'Archimède, a Syracuse

Creator:

• Achille Etienne Gigault de La Salle (1772-1855)

Description:

• Aquatint From Voyage Pittoresque en Sicile (Volume 2) Paris: Didot, 1822-1826

Curatorial Notes:

• Achille Etienne Gigault de La Salle, a government ocial, lived in Sicily during 1820 and studied Sicilian history and archaeology. The famous Parisian publisher, Didot, gathers here La Salle’s work with illustrations by more than a dozen artists, many British. This scene was engraved by the British engraver William Havell (here spelled ‘Hawell’) and was printed on English paper made by Charles Wise. In the distance is the Città Vecchia (Old City) of Syracuse, on the island of Ortigia. In the foreground is the tomb of Archimedes.

Photography:

• David Kelly Crow

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/tx31qq180

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical