Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys : Notebook B, Ionic Temples, and Heroa

Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys

<p style='text-align: justify;'>Pasted in on the flyleaf are handwritten labels, 'Ephesus, June 1876' and 'Athens, April 1875'. Also inscribed, 'J. Henry Middleton, King's College, Cambridge, Feb. 1874', and - struck through - '4 Storey's Gate, S.W., Westminster', also the note 'Date of book 1836'. The notebook consists of Middleton's notes on Ionic architecture, with bibliographic references for his sources. An index at the front organises the material as 45 examples in mainland Greece of Ionic style: Temple of Hera, Samos; Ionic temple by Ilissus; Nike Apteros; Artemision - Ephesus; Temple of Dionysos, Teos; Athene Polias, Priene; Apollo at Didyme; Elesis - Great Propylaea; Eleusis - Small propylaea; Athens - Propylaea; Erectheum; Xanthus, Mausoleum; Smintheum; Temple of Cybele, Sardis; Artemis, Magnesia; Athene, Tegea; Apollo, Bassae; Temple at Aphrodisias; Temple of Zeus, Aigani; Temple of Zeus, Labranda; Ionic volute, set out; Tomb at Agrigentum. Inserts: 1 handwritten note on the sculptured parapet of the Temple of Nike at f. 3, 1 clipping from an architectural publciation on the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus at f. 4, 2 handwritten notes on the Erechtheum at f.23, 1 page of handwritten notes on Ionic Architecture at the back.</p>