Vue de la lanterne de Demosthene á Athenes

Engraved view, 56x 41 cms,Black and white.The engraving shows this Choragic monument with some people in the foreground.The Choragic Monument of Lysicrates near the Acropolis of Athens was erected by the choregos Lysicrates, a wealthy patron of musical performances in the Theater of Dionysus to commemorate the award of first prize in 335/334 BCE, to one of the performances he had sponsored.
The choregos was the sponsor who paid for and supervised the training of the dramatic dance-chorus.In 1658, a French Capuchin monastery was founded by the site; in 1669 the monastery succeeded in purchasing the monument, then being called the "Lantern of Demosthenes" after the famous Athenian statesman of the 4th c. BCE.[2] A reading of its inscription by Jacob Spon established its original purpose.[3] The young British architects James "Athenian" Stuart and Nicholas Revett published the first measured drawings of the monument in their Antiquities of Athens, London 1762. Le Roy´s view shows the lantern attached to the french monastery. The "Ruines" by Le Roy was an important source of inspiration and influenced the neoclassical taste in Europe during XVIII c. Ref Atabey 709, Blackmer 1009