Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin's pursuits in Greece (London, 1811)

and mutilation in which they at present
exist. -;*."■'•?

Most of the 5as-reliefs, and nearly all
the characteristic features of architecture*
in the various monuments at Athens, have
been moulded, and the moulds of them
have been brought to London,
: : Besides the architecture and sculpture
at Athens, all remains of them which
could he traced through several Other parts
of Greece, have been measured and deli-
neated, with the most scrupulous exact-
ness, by the second architect, Ittar.

vAnd picturesque views of Athens, of
Constantinople, of various parts of Greece,
and of the Islands of the Archipelago,
have been executed by Don Tita Lusieri.
-In the prosecution of this undertaking,
the artists had the mortification of wit-
nessing the very wilful devastation, to
which all the sculpture, and even the
architecture, were daily exposed, on the
part of the Turks and travellers. Thç