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Description : Collection of original drawing and engraved plates relating to the temple remains at Persepolis, comprising: (i) Stukeley's copy of the anonymous Persepolis Illustrata: or, the Ancient and Royal Palace of Persepolis in Persia Destroyed by Alexander the Great, about Two Thousand Years Ago, with a note on the derivation of the plates by his fellow antiquary, close-friend and brother-in-law Roger Gale, and a note by Stukeley himself that Tis very strange, that mankind should fancy these Antiquitys, to be the ruins of a Palace. nothing can be more notorious, than that it is a Temple: an open one after the Patriarchal mode, as well as Persian mode, with the engraved title altered by Stukeley to accommodate this view, letterpress title, 8-page engraved text leaves, 13 engraved plates (some folding or double-page, one with tear, all with small stamp in lower fore-corner just touching image), contemporary half calf, folio, S. Harding, 1739 (ii) Fourteen sheets of autograph pen ink and wash drawings by Stukeley, some extensively annotated, plus one engraving, showing the ruins of Persepolis ruins and Persians antiquities, the sequence (as later numbered in blue crayon) comprising: (1) Engraving of Persepolis seen from the plain, from Philosophical Transactions, 210, after Chardin: (2) View of the ruins of Persepolis from the West, (3) Ground plan from an original drawing at Sr Hans Sloans, (4) Sheet with ground plans on recto and verso with a profile of an archi-Magus, (5) The Perspective of the second temple at Persepolis, signed with WS monogram, (6) Ground plot of the second Temple at Persepolis, signed with WS monogram, (7) Grounplot, of the Temple at Persepolis, with notes on the Sphinx etc overleaf, ground plan sketches and notes (...Brun says he cant imagine how the walls were fill'd up nor a roof made for he can observe no marks of an arch nor staircase...), with a long account of the plain and temple overleaf, largely drawing on Chardin, (8) notes and sketches on the ground plan, with sketches overleaf showing Persepolis as a square henge of standing stones and trilithons, (9) Dr Kempffers ground plot, (11) Temple portico and priest, (12) Statuary including horses sacred to the sun and the temple lion (...Dr Fryer says the upper part of a ram is found sometime in carvings here, which he fancys to be the arms of the Persian monarchy. I take it to be Egyptian Amun...), (13) One of the gates of the temple at Persepolis and A Magus carv'd on the inside, with extensive notes overleaf, opening: The Scituation of Persepolis is charming..., (14) View of another Persian temple (again resembling Stonehenge) with overleaf a view of The Portal and entrance, with extensive notes (...the cornishes are Egyptian. All most probably deriv'd from Solomons temples...), (15) Persian Architecture/ One of the Ports of the Temples at Persepolis, the drawings comprising 14 sheets, mostly drawn on one side only, all with library stamps, minor dust-staining etc., folio, [c.1740]
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