Ancyra: remains of the temple of Augustus. Lithograph after A. Guillaumot after Ch. Texier, 1865.

Ruins of the temple of Augustus at Ancyra (later Ankara) with some local people in front of it. The print shows a finely constructed doorway with a carved stone lintel. Either side of the door are some Turkish grave stones indicasting use of the site as a cemetery. Left, a Roman column

The temple, built between 25 BC and 20 BC, is the location of the Monumentum Ancyranum, the inscription recording the achievements of the Roman emperor Augustus (Res gestae divi Augusti)

London : Day & Son lithographers to the Queen, [1865?]

1 print : lithograph ; image 26.8 x 17.5 cm

Ancyra. View of the temple of Augustus. Ch. Texier del.t ; Lemaitre direxit ; A. Guillaumot sc.t Bears number: Pl. 22

"Lemaitre direxit": presumably referring to Anne Clara Clément, née Lemaître, whose forename is mentined in another print by her for Texier. According to E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des peintes, Paris 1999, s.v. Clément, she exhibited under her married name (Clément) from 1855. Her engraving for the present plate may have been made for Ch. Texier, Description de l'Asie mineure ... beaux-arts, monuments historiques, plans et topographie des cités antiques, par Charles Texier ... gravure de Lemaître..., Paris: Firmin-Didot frères, 1839-1849

Wellcome Collection 2150209i