The Erectheum on the Acropolis, Athens

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Artist Dimitrios Constantin(Greek, active 1850s–1860s)Greek, active 1850s–1860s

CultureGreek

Titles

The Erectheum on the Acropolis, Athens

Date1865

PlaceAthens, Greece

MediumAlbumenized salted paper print

DimensionsImage: 10 1/2 × 14 11/16 in. (26.6 × 37.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 11/16 in. (26.6 × 37.3 cm)
Mount: 13 11/16 × 16 7/8 in. (34.8 × 42.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Compass Bank in honor of Mayor Bill White at "One Great Night in November, 2005", The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2004.363

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 208

Exposé

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionDimitrios Constantin opened his first photography studio in 1858, thereby becoming the second professional photographer in Greece. He was the first photographer to join the Hellenic Archaeological Society, for which he photographed antiquities in Athens, objects from the Society’s collection, and archaeological sites, such as the one pictured in The Erectheum on the Acropolis, Athens. An impressive structure, it rises 512 feet above sea level in the city of Athens. Constantin photographed the site and sold his images in albums to foreign visitors to Greece.
ProvenanceCharles Isaacs Photographs Inc., Malvern.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., Malvern, on 10/7/1989.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

lower right on image: D. Costantin // a Athénes

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