Giovanni B. Lusieri, View of the Parthenon from the north-west.
Watercolour 0.58 x 0.95 m.
The idea of the creation of a new Greek state on the territory where the ancient Greek civilization had been developed, attracted the philhellenes in particular. The Philhellenic movement began to grow vigorously in the early 19th century.
Athens, Benaki Museum.
Fotopoulos, D., Delivorrias, Ang., Greece at the Benaki Museum, Benaki Museum, Athens 1997, p. 495, fig. 868.
© Benaki Museum, Athens.