Friday 29 March 2013

Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi, Panoramic View of Corfu Town, 1806, British Museum, In Search of Classical Greece


British Museum Exhibition, In Search of Classical Greece

Not to be missed, the 360 degree panorama of Corfu Town and Harbour in 1806, by Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi.

Catalogue

Kindly lent by the Packard Humanities Institute, these works have never been seen in public before.


A hasty snapshot of a portion of the Corfu panorama (apologies for fuzzy focus):



Two official publicity photos:




View of Bathy Town and Harbour on Ithaka, 
Simone Pomardi (1757-1830), 1806, 
Watercolour. Packard Humanities Institute.





Turkish village on the Acropolis, 
Simone Pomardi (1757-1830), c. 1805,
Watercolour. Packard Humanities Institute.




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