Discoveries in the Photoarchive
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The Parthenon in 1667This detailed sketch, based on George Wheeler’s topographical drawing of 1667, documents the appearance of the Parthenon just a few years before Venetian forces shelled the Acropolis during the Republic’s struggle to take the city from the Ottomans in 1687. |
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Drawing Lost in Spanish Civil WarThis stunning pen and wash drawing of the Coronation of the Virgin signed by the seventeenth-century Spanish master Francisco Herrera the Younger (called "el Mozo") was part of a valuable collection of drawings housed in the Real Instituto de Jovellanos in Gijón, Spain, that was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. |
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Discoveries in the Photoarchive
Significant scholarship, from new attributions to updated provenance, is undertaken daily in the Photoarchive. Discoveries in the Photoarchive not only shares some of this research but also highlights special reproductions and collections in our holdings.