About the 1936 Exhibition Collection
The British School at Athens celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1936 with a large public exhibition at Burlington House at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The exhibition, British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, consisted of a special display of Minoan culture related to the discoveries at Knossos by Sir Arthur Evans as well as the excavations of the School including: Phylakopi, Kamares Cave, Palaikastro, Mycenae, Sparta, Perachora, Thessaly, Macedonia, Lesbos, Cyprus, Ithaca, and Megalopolis (Arcadia). It also included displays of Travels and Studies in Greece and Asia Minor, the Genose in the Levant, Monasteries in Athos, Byzantine Music, Byzantine Architecture and Decorative Arts, Greek Island Embroideries, Special Studies of Greek Pottery and Sculpture, Restoration of Ancient Monuments, Studies of Modern Greek Life and the School buildings and officers.
Since original ancient artifacts could not be transported to the exhibition in London, the displays consisted of replicas of ancient artifacts, modern ethnographic artifacts and illustrative panels with original watercolour drawings, many of which were done by Émile Gilliéron and Piet de Jong, and photographs.
The 1936 Exhibition Collection contains the surviving panels with original artwork from this exhibition.
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Athena Promachos mounting her war-chariot. Drawing and photograph."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Head of the Gorgon from the shield of a figure of Athena Promachos."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Athena Ergané (a): seated figure, spinning. Drawing and photograph."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Athena Promachos mounting her war-chariot. Drawing and photograph."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Lyre player, possibly Apollo: fragment of a relief."
The original description in the catalogue reads: " Funerary relief, from Angelona in Laconia: c. 470 B.C. A simple and dignified composition, some of the details are rather crude, the right hand is clumsy and the feet very long and flat."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Archaic relief of Herakles, found near Cyzicus. Constantinople Museum, late sixth century."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Mourning youth, a funerary relief from Geraki in Laconia, sketchy in execution and not too well drawn, but full of feeling."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Marble statue base at Cyzicus. Between vertical tridents are dolphins and half-galleys. There are two inscriptions: the longer in prose appears in the drawing, a shorter one in verse is on the other side. Both commemorate the clearing of 'the long choked channels and lagoon,' probably between Cyzicus and the mainland, by Queen Antonia Tryphaena, descended through her mother from Mark Antony."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Seated Hellenistic goddess, perhaps Kore Soteira, who was worshipped at Cyzicus, as her footstool is decorated with pomegranate. Found near Cyzicus."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Charioteer, from the Acropolis of Athens: an archaic relief of the pre-Persian period: the soft forms and elaborate detail are typical of Ionian art. (Illustration for Acropolis Catalogue Vol. I, by the late Guy Dickins, Student 1904-13)."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The sandal. The curious sinkings probably represent the openings in the sandal for its straps. The relief may commemorate the cure of a foot disease. But, since is it the sandal, not the foot, that is represented, it may record an escape from snake-bite by the thickness of the sandal. (G.P. Byzantinos)."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The whole monument, showing the sandal, snake and inscription."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The inscription: in this drawing the sandal has been removed from the plinth."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Part of a mourning group on a tombstone from Kynosarges. The person commemorated is missing: he grasped the hand of the remaining male figure: about 400 B.C."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Ionic capital from Kynosarges."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Reconstruction of the East pediment, showing the figure of a fallen warrior, by Duncan Mackenzie, student 1895-99, and devoted associate of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos. The drawing is by D. Theodore Fyfe, with minor alterations by Walter George."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The torso of the Fallen Warrior.
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Duncan Mackenzie at work.
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Head of the giant Anytos."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Head of Demeter."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Head of Artemis."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Part of the embroidered veil of Despoina."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawing of existing fragments of group indicating their position in the restoration."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawing of part of embroidered veil of Despoina: the surface has been 'spread out' so as to show the details of its decoration."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The restoration by the late Guy Dickins."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Coin of Megalopolis: on the reverse is a representation of the group by Damophon in the neighbouring sanctuary at Lykosoura."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Villa Ariadne… Views of the Villa, Taverna, and Garden."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Villa Ariadne… Views of the Villa, Taverna, and Garden."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Villa Ariadne… Views of the Villa, Taverna, and Garden."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Villa Ariadne… Views of the Villa, Taverna, and Garden."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Potters at Pediadha in Crete. The master potter is finishing the rim of one of the huge shapely jars used for storage. His mate is seated slowly revolving the jar with a simple mechanism, clearly shown beneath the jar on the potter's right. At the potter's feet lies a mass of unworked clay. in the left-hand corner is one of the circular stands or turntables on which the pot revolves. The family and the mule stand by."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Scenes from a village feast at Palaikastro in Crete. (c) The singer with hand on heart is improvising, to the accompaniment of viol and drum."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "General view of the kilns at Pediadha."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Scenes from a village feast at Palaikastro in Crete... A wrestling bout between two workmen on the beach."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Village feast at Praisos in Crete."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Sketch map of Karpathos, based on the British Admiralty Chart."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Elymbos. (b) The village."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Elymbos... (c) the approach from the sea."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Wooden lock, of a type found in many Greek islands, though it is fast disappearing."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Wooden olive-press and olive-mill: these presses are now everywhere superseded by iron screw-presses."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The temple of Apollo in Sikinos… View of the façade and entrance."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The temple of Apollo in Sikinos… Ground plan of the temple."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Carved and gilt screens in the churches (a) of St. Athanasios in Skopelos (ancient Peparethos)... These richly-carved screens are common in Greek lands, especially in the islands and in the north, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: these two examples belong to the latter."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The town of Skopelos, from above, with the land-locked bay behind."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Carved and gilt screens in the churches ... (b) of the Panagia Portaritissa in Astypalaia. These richly-carved screens are common in Greek lands, especially in the islands and in the north, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: these two examples belong to the latter."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The acropolis of Telos; a double flight of steps within the gate."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The town and ports of Leros, from the Caste of the Knights of St. John from Rhodes."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The gate in the Hellenic wall of Nisyros, like (e) a fine example of Greek military architecture."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Masquerade in the snow at Hagios Georgios, near Viza, Thrace.