Production and Framing


MacKenzie/Propylon at Patara, Turkey
 
Drawings of the Graeco-Roman theater and propylon (city gate) at Patara in Lycia were commissioned for publication in Antiquities of Ionia. These books recorded the results of expeditions, sponsored by the Society of Dilettanti in London, to little-known archaeological sites on the Turkish coast. Picturing the broken outlines of ancient monuments amid lush undergrowth, MacKenzie's drawings situate the ruins in the natural world from which they appear to have been only temporarily separated.

The Getty Research Institute Research Library has a number of works by William Gell.