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Title	Byzantine Capital [The Building News]
Collection	Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection
Maker	Lethaby;William Richard;
Date	c.1912
Id Number Current Accession	R.85.23
Id Number Current Repository	-235834434
Inscription	Reproduced - As title (see notes). Verso - "16" (x2, one in pencil, one in blue pencil).
Location Creation Site	London
Subject	Lethaby;William Richard;;
Material	Black printing ink on paper
Notes	'Capital' is the architectural term given to the head or 'cornice' of a pillar or column (being a diminutive of Latin 'caput' meaning head). Lethaby was interested in architectural detail throughout his life; some earlier examples (c.1883) of drawings of capitals were shown at the Central School Lethaby exhibition in 1984 (see catalogue page 67). These drawings can be found at the Athenaeum in Barnstaple.
Object Notes	Full - "Byzantine Capital of the Vith Century, restored from the photograph of a broken original in the museum at Gizeh. Above what is shown here would have been a thick bearing-block. Restored and drawn by Professor Lethaby F.R.I.B.A.". A drawing by Lethaby, reproduced in The Building News, issue dated January 26th 1912. The original drawing was probably made in black chalk or wax crayon.
Object References	(re. other drawings of capitals by Lethaby)
Relation Exhibition	W R Lethaby 1857-1931: architecture, design and education, London, Central School of Arts and Crafts
Relation References	Sale catalogue: Christies. 19 December 1989. Exhibition: W R Lethaby 1857-1931: architecture, design and education, Backemeyer;Sylvia;Gronberg;Theresa; ed. Lund Humphries Publishers. 22 October-17 November 1984.
Rights	University of the Arts London, Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection
Source	Christie�s ; A.B. Waters CBE
Technique	Photolithograph
Work Type	Reproduction