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001 $ 06/3524
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Railton, William
245 1 0 $a The Newly Discovered Temple At Cadachio, In The Island Of Corfu, Illustrated By William Railton, Architect.
260 # # $a [London:] $b (Published by Priestley & Weale, High Street, Bloomsbury,) $c [1828]
300 # # $a 6 p., 5 pl.; $c 533 mm. (Folio.)
505 0 # $a [T.p.] - [Text, 'Description Of A Newly Discovered Temple At Cadachio, In The Island Of Corfu'] - [Plates].
508 # # $a All plates are signed as drawn by Wm. Railton and engraved by J. Roffe.

Each carries the publishers' imprint of Priestley & Weale, High Street, Bloomsbury.
520 2 # $a No publication-date is given, but this copy is recorded as having been presented by the author to the Royal Academy in 1828 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, VII, 266). It was printed to form part of Priestley and Weale's 1830 continuation of Stuart and Revett's 'Antiquities of Athens'.

The work describes the remains of a Doric temple of the 5th century B.C., discovered on Cercyra in 1822 by the engineer, Col. Whitmore. The text includes extracts from Whitmore's account and from an ancient Greek inscription recorded in Maffei's 'Museum Veronense'.

The plates show: 1. Ground plan of the temple; 2. Elevation of the front towards the sea; 3. details of the Doric order; 4, 5. architectural details.

Railton was a student and a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy. His best-known work is Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square.
561 # # $a Presented by the author in 1828 (acknowledged RA Council Minutes, VII, 266).
563 # # $a 20th-century half calf, 19th-century marbled-papered boards; spine lettered 'Temple At Cadachio ¦ Vulliamy's Ornaments'. Bound with a copy of Lewis Vulliamy's Examples of ornamental sculpture in architecture, [1827].
653 # # $a Architecture, Greek - Architecture details, Greek - Ruins - Greece - Cercyra - Cadachio - History - 5th century B.C. - Doric
655 # 0 $a Art history - Archaeology - Reconstructions - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Priestley $e publisher
700 1 # $a Weale $e publisher
700 1 # $a Railton $e draughtsman $e previous owner $e donor
700 1 # $a Roffe $e engraver
700 1 # $a Whitmore
710 2 # $a Priestley and Weale $e publisher