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.
BRF 02/01/07/012. One mounted black and white photograph of a capital. The reverse reads "Paraskevi 5 Detail of capital." The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Church of St. Paraskevi (Eski Djouma: also called Panaghia Acheiropoietos). - Photographs: Passage to church; nave; details of capitals."
BRF 01/01/07/238. Ink illustration of the plan of a church. Title in upper left reads "Church of S. Panteleemon: Thessalonica"; smaller title in lower centre reads "A Plan of the church." "No 1" is written in ink in the upper left corner. There are some pencil annotations on the illustration. There is a compass in ink to the right. There are two scale bars, one for feet on the lower left and one for metres on the lower right. To the upper right of the right-hand scale bar is a Byzantine Research Fund copyright stamp with the original archive number written in. The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Church of St. Panteleëmon. - Plan of the Church."
BRF 01/01/07/248. Ink illustration of the elevation of a church. Title in upper left reads "Church of S. Panteleemon: Thessalonica"; smaller title in lower centre reads "North east elevation." "No 4" is written in ink in the upper left corner, with the 4 crossed out in pencil and 5 written beside it, and "no 4" written beneath again in pencil.There are two scale bars, one for feet on the lower left and one for metres on the lower right. To the upper right of the right-hand scale bar is a Byzantine Research Fund copyright stamp with the original archive number written in. The original description in the catalogue reads: "The Church of St. Panteleëmon. - 561-2. Elevations: 561, north-east."
A typewritten list of the catalogue of the exhibition with bibliographic references given to many individual items. The final page gives publication titles. Many of the items are marked as "(missing)", some of which are part of this collection: it is unclear when this list was created.