Volume 4

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
Date:
1810-1823
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Credit: Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF PART THE SECOND. ^ Hi yet few persons have been more zealous in their researches after such antiquities than he was; because he had for many years looked forward to the contribution they might offer to the taste and the literature of his country. Since his departure from Athens, some excavations made by the two rival artists, Lusieri and Fauvel, whose merits he has before noticed, began to realize the prospect so long, and so generally, formed. Their discoveries were followed by a still more extensive examination of the soil near Athens, conducted under the patronage of several persons from this country; but by none more successfully than by Mr. Dodwell, by Mr. Graham, and by Mr. Burgon. The representation of a fine vase belonging to Mr. Dodwell has been already published2; but the more important discoveries of Mr. Graham, and of Mr. Burgon of Smyrna, as connected with the arts and the literature of Greece, and with a subject so often alluded to in these Travels, demand all the attention which it is now in the author’s power to bestow upon a topic he has already discussed. Mr. Graham, being at Athens, caused an excavation to be made near the supposed site of the Academy, on the left- hand side of the antient paved-way, leading from Athens to Thebes. Such was his success, that he discovered and brought to this country nearly a thousand vases, of a nature and quality so extraordinary, that in some instances, as will presently appear, nothing like them had ever been seen before. (2) See Moses’s Collection &c. of Vases, Plate 3. Lond. 1S14. VOL. IV, b *