Byzantine Capital [The Building News]
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1912
Maker: William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931)
Dimensions:
Image: 261 x 177 mm (26.1 x 17.7 cm)
Sheet: 315 x 217 mm (31.5 x 21.7 cm)
Medium: Black printing ink on paper
Object number: R.85.23
DescriptionFull - "Byzantine Capital of the Vith Century, restored from the photograph of a broken original in the museum at Gizeh. Above what is shown here would have been a thick bearing-block. Restored and drawn by Professor Lethaby F.R.I.B.A.". A drawing by Lethaby, reproduced in The Building News, issue dated January 26th 1912. The original drawing was probably made in black chalk or wax crayon.
