A Narrative of What is Known Respecting the Literary Remains of the Late John Tw
A Narrative of What is Known Respecting the Literary Remains of the Late John Tw
Philip Hunt
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The princi- pal share of this task devolved upon myself, assisted I think by Mr. Carlyle : and as to the drawings, Lord Elgin called in the aid and advice of Mr. Barker, who happened to be then at Pera, making a panorama of Constantinople and the Bosphorus. These drawings were in water colours: 21 and I have but a very faint recollection of the subjects of them. I cannot bring to my memory any views of temples or ruins, or scenes celebrated in ancient history: but I recollect some sketches of d...ances, marriage ceremonies, and customs and usages of modern Greeks: when I was afterwards at Athens, and mentioned to M. Fauvel what I recollected of the nature of the drawings that had thus reached Constantinople, he assured me that Mr. John TweddelPs collection at Athens had been much more extensive than what I had described to him ; and that depredation must have been made on the property of the deceased. Such of these damaged drawings as could be dried, were, with the written memorandum-books and loose papers, and whatever had required drying, all given back to Lord Elgin, even to the most minute fragment, to be taken care of, with the other property of Mr.
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