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: "Internal decoration of lotus pattern in white and red on black."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "External decoration with fine pale glaze and polychrome."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "The horsemen have been painted on a black ground bearing a red pattern. But an ample margin of unpatterned black has been left round each figure to prevent the colours running or flaking. This vase also bears a local dedication."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Statuette of a goddess, gaily painted, with genial archaic features: 600-500 B.C."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Cook, grating cheese: his carving knife lies on a rest beside him: 600-500 B.C."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Polychrome cup: a chieftain mounts to his seat beside the charioteer."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Polychrome cup: a chieftain mounts to his seat beside the charioteer."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Naukratite vase, of imported fabric (cf. 354 above): farmyard scene: about 550 B.C."
Framed painting of Humfry Payne, looking down at a 3/4 view. The bottom of the frame reads "Humfry Payne. Director 1929-1936." On the back is written "H.G.G.Payne by E.Payne". The original description in the catalogue reads: "Portrait of the late Humfry Payne: lent by Mrs E.J.Payne."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Bottom of a Proto-Corinthian Pyxis, from the Argive Heraeum; left, as originally put together.".
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Bottom of a Proto-Corinthian Pyxis, from the Argive Heraeum… right, as reconstructed by Payne; water-colour by P. de Jong."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Proto-Corinthian cup, at Ægina."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... From Attic vases (c. 600 B.C.)."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... From Attic vases (c. 600 B.C.)."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... From the Tomb of Menekrates at Corfu (c. 650 B.C)."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... From Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions"
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... From Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... Plastic vases in the form of lions."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... Stone lion from Nineveh."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... Plastic vases in the form of lions."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of lions... Plastic vases in the form of lions."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of figures and ornaments on proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of figures and ornaments on proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of figures and ornaments on proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of figures and ornaments on proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of figures and ornaments on proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of figures and ornaments on proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of figures and ornaments on proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Drawings of figures and ornaments on proto-Corinthian and Corinthian vases."
A map drawn in ink over a black and white photograph. The title in the top right corner reads "Sketch Map of Limena shewing natural features, the ancient remains, modern occupation and character of cultivation 1907." There is a key and scale bar in the upper left corner, and a compass in the lower left corner. Towards the lower right is written in ink "J. Penoyre"; the same is written faintly in pencil to the lower left of this. The number 371 is pasted in the lower right corner, with the bottom half protruding from the lower edge of the map; it is also written and circled in pencil to the upper left of the compass. There is a reinforced hole in each corner. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Relief map of the ancient city of Thasos, photographed from a model. Note the tiny ancient harbour (Limena) and the ancient walls rising to include the citadel with summit tower and temple platform.”
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Athena Ergané (a): seated figure, spinning. Drawing and photograph."
The original description in the catalogue reads: "Heracles wrestling with the Nemean Lion."
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."