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English: The northwest side of the Parthenon—and the Turkish mosque inside the Parthenon—in 1800, as it was before the looting of the west pediment sculptures by the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, in 1801. Actual auction price of the original oil painting: 496.100 €. ORIGINAL TITLE: "The Acropolis in Athens".
Date (first public display 1889)
Source German auction house LEMPERTZ / Private Collection
Author Lancelot Theodore Compte Turpin de Crissé (1782-1859).

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The northwest side of the Parthenon in the Ottoman era of Athens.

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