In Search of Classical Greece, travel drawings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi

Fabulous exhibition at the British Museum - In Search of Classical Greece, travel drawings of Edward Dodwell and Simone Pomardi 1805 - 1806.

You will have to search for it as it is hidden away in an upper gallery right at the back of the museum.

Can you imagine the excitement which these new images would have created when they first arrived in London and began to circulate and influence people.

Cave of Pan at Vari - gloomy, smashed-up, melancholic.

Temple at the port of Aegina - two columns in coloured paint emerging from a background of sketches and grids.

Temple of Poseidon at Sunium - bulky colossol columns of a roofless temple, but the skill of the artist has made the marble shimmer as if weightless.

Warrior with shield from the frieze over the east proch of the Hephaisteion - limbless, headless, asexual, the grey tones of the muscles incredible.

Lion Gate at Mycene - romantic, awe-inspiring, desolate.

Bathy Town and harbour Ithaca - the young Greeks listless, purposeless and lethagic from the loss of their Greek identity.