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| William Etty Study of Horses from the North Frieze of the Parthenon ca. 1841-43 drawing British Museum |
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| William Young Ottley Parthenon - North Frieze - Horsemen before 1836 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to John Flaxman Parthenon - North Frieze - Horsemen before 1826 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Thomas Stothard after William Pars Equestrian Figures from the North Frieze of the Parthenon 1810 etching British Museum |
from The Parthenon
The Frieze.
What happy musings genial went
With airiest touch the chisel lent
To frisk and curvet light
Of horses gay – their riders grave –
Contrasting so in action brave
With virgins meekly bright,
Clear filing on an even tone
With pitcher each, one after one
Like water-fowl in flight.
– Herman Melville (1891)
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| Eugène Delacroix Theseus, Conqueror of the Centaur Eurytus 1825 lithograph Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Benjamin Robert Haydon Ilissos or Theseus from the East Pediment of the Parthenon 1808 drawing British Museum |
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| Louis Désiré Blanquard-Evrard Le Thésée de Phidias, Fragment du Fronton du Parthenon d'Athènes 1851 salted paper print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| George Owen Wynne Apperley River God or Hero from the West Pediment of the Parthenon before 1960 watercolor Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire |
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| Alphonse Legros Study of the Horse of Selene from the East Pediment of Parthenon 1898 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Adolphe Braun Horse of Selene from the East Pediment of Parthenon ca. 1865 albumen silver print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| W.A. Mansell Horse of Selene from the East Pediment of Parthenon ca. 1870 albumen silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Marc Riboud The British Museum (Horse of Selene from the East Pediment of the Parthenon) 1954 gelatin silver print Tate Gallery |
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
My spirit is too weak – mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die
Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
Yet 'tis a gentle luxury to weep
That I have not the cloudy winds to keep
Fresh for the opening of the morning's eye.
Such dim-conceivèd glories of the brain
Bring round the heart an undescribable feud;
So do these wonders a most dizzy pain,
That mingles Grecian grandeur with the rude
Wasting of old Time – with a billowy main –
A sun – a shadow of a magnitude.
– John Keats (1817)
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| Leonida Caldesi Torso of Cecrops from the West Pediment of the Parthenon ca. 1857-59 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Leonida Caldesi Torso of Neptune from the West Pediment of the Parthenon ca. 1857-59 albumen print Victoria & Albert Museum |