after Julien David Le Roy, a proof print before letters for ‘Les Ruines des plus beaux Monumens de la Grèce’, with contemporary manuscript ink inscription of title, below, and engraver’s signature, lower right, depicting the Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Theseion, built in the 5th century BCE, around the same time as the Parthenon, a Doric temple on the Agoraios Kolonos hill in Athens, which owes its remarkable state of preservation largely to its extended use as a Greek Orthodox church from the 7th century until 1834, when it became the site of the declaration of Athens as the capital of Greece, and was re-designated as a museum, later an ancient monument,
engraving on thick laid paper, 300 x 465 mm. (12 7/8 x 18 1/4 in),