Student surveying the Castor and Pollux temple in Rome
by PARKE, Henry, Pen and watercolour, 935 x 635 mm
At the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, architects studied and meticulously documented - often at the cost of great physical exertion - the buildings of Antiquity, even in the countries of Asia Minor, before they started designing new architecture. Being also children of the Romantic age, they liked just as much to present their own buildings as ruins.