Diogenes' Lantern

Diogenes' Lantern

Photograph

Attributed to William Sherlock

Maker
English, 1813–1889

Diogenes' Lantern

Choragic Monument of Lysicrates


1843
Salted paper print
Image: 7.5 × 7 cm (2 15/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
Mount: 11.2 × 9.5 cm (4 7/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
Mount: 25 × 17.3 cm (9 13/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Purchase
1981.1896.0004
Inscriptions mount recto C (ink): Diogenes' Lantern \ a choragic monument of \ Lysicrates. Athens.

mount recto BC (pencil): 1843. \ Calotype by Sherlock \ belonged to Admiral Sir Robert Craigie +1873

[no inscription verso]
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