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IN   THE
LAND   OF   TEMPLES
BY   J O S E P H   P E N N E L L

 

 

 

 

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN

 

 

JOSEPH PENNELL’S PICTURES
IN   THE   LAND   OF   TEMPLES

 

 

JOSEPH PENNELL’S PICTURES
IN   THE   LAND   OF   TEMPLES

REPRODUCTIONS   OF   A   SERIES   OF
LITHOGRAPHS   MADE   BY   HIM   IN   THE   LAND   OF
TEMPLES,   MARCH-JUNE   1913,   TOGETHER   WITH
IMPRESSIONS   AND   NOTES   BY   THE   ARTIST

 

 

 

 

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT GO.

 

COPYRIGHT

LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN. 1915.

  

TO
R.   M.   DAWKINS

LATE DIRECTOR
OF THE BRITISH
SCHOOL AT ATHENS
WHO SHOWED ME
WHERE I SHOULD
FIND THE TEMPLES

  

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY B. CLAY AND SONS, LTD.,
BRUNSWICK STREET,STAMFORD STREET, S.E., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.

NOTES—ON MY LITHOGRAPHS IN THE LAND OF TEMPLES

I WENT to Greece for two reasons. First, because I wanted to see Greeceand what remained of her glory—to see if the greatest work of the pastimpressed me as much as the greatest work of the present—and to try tofind out which was the greater—the more inspiring. And second, I wentbecause I was told by a Boston authority that I was nothing but aragtime sketcher, couldn’t see Greek art and couldn’t draw it if I did.

I have been there—and did what I saw in my own way. To me Greece waswonderful and was beautiful, but anyone can see that—and can rave overit with appropriate quotations from appropriate authors. I know no Greekand have scarce read a translation. I say this regretfully—I wish Ihad—I should have seen more. I know, however, if I had not before seenthe greatest art of the rest of Europe, I could not have been so movedas I was by what I saw in the Land of Temples, the land whence we havederived most of our ideas, ideals, and inspirations.

I drew the things that interested me—and it

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