Sparta: Drawing of the theatre by David Le Roy (1758)

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 01/7420.C2537
Level Item
Description Glass negative, quarter plate size, presumably a copy negative.
Dimensions 10.5 x 8 cm
Place Sparta Theatre
Ancient Sparta
Dates 1924
Donor/Creator The British School at Athens
Project Sparta Excavation 1924-1927
Scope and Content Part of the collection of images, 1924-1927, of the British School at Athens excavations at Sparta, Laconia. The original description in the SPHS register reads: "Le Roy, Les Ruines de la Grece I pl. 13 Theatre at Sparta".
Notes Date of the photograph derived from the date listed in the SPHS register. However, the date of the publication (Le Roy 1758) from which it was taken is much earlier.
Related records [BSA SPHS 02/1/8130.C2537], Sparta: Drawing of the theatre by David Le Roy (1758), 1924
Reference Le Roy, D. 1758. Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce. 2 vols.: pl. 27.