The Acropolis of Athens.
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The Acropolis of Athens.
From the album "Selections from Seventeen-Hundred Genuine Photographs Taken Around The Shores Of The Mediterranean Between The Years 1846-52. With, Or Without, Notes, Historical, And Descriptive. By a Wayworn Wanderer."
ca. 1852
Salted paper print
13.5 x 21.6 cm.
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Inscriptions caption sheet-(printed) "The Acropolis of Athens." "You fan on high,
where Pallas lingered..." "The serence face of Heaven looks down upon
no more beautiful view on the fair Earth, than that seen from 'The
Museum Hill,' at the base of the broken monument of Philopapus: - the
morning sun illuminates the old Acropolis, where the noble Parthenon,
- 'poetry in marble' - starts into life - each glittering column
defined against the clear blue sky - as if, by a magic touch, the sun-
beam had but just created it." ...
where Pallas lingered..." "The serence face of Heaven looks down upon
no more beautiful view on the fair Earth, than that seen from 'The
Museum Hill,' at the base of the broken monument of Philopapus: - the
morning sun illuminates the old Acropolis, where the noble Parthenon,
- 'poetry in marble' - starts into life - each glittering column
defined against the clear blue sky - as if, by a magic touch, the sun-
beam had but just created it." ...
