A lesson in the classics

By and Ptolemy Dean Ptolemy Dean2008-02-08T00:00:00

Henry Parke’s drawing of a student on the Grand Tour measuring a Corinthian capital at the Temple of Jupiter Stator in Rome.

The drawings of the 18th century neoclassicists are as fabulous as their buildings.

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