View of Mount Parnassus and Nefpaktos Castle, Greece
Date
24 August 1675
Creator
Francis Vernon (1632 - 1677, British) , Traveller, Traveller
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p5r
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 301mm
width (page): 184mm
width (page): 184mm
Subject
Description
Composite drawing of two views of Greece: one of a view of Mount Parnassus and the surrounding mountains in central Greece; the other a drawing of the pyramid-shaped Nafpaktos Castle in western Greece.
This image is recorded in the journal by Francis Vernon of his travels in the Eastern Mediterranean, kept between 1675 and 1676.
This image is recorded in the journal by Francis Vernon of his travels in the Eastern Mediterranean, kept between 1675 and 1676.
Object history
'Mr. Vernon's journal of his travels is extant among the papers of the Royal Society, being found among those of Dr. Hooke, as appears from a letter of Dr. Richard Mead to the Revd. Mr. Edmund Cheshull. This journal, which contains only short and imperfect notes, but a great number of inscriptions, begins at Spalatro, July 8, 1675, and ends at Ispahan, September 14, 1676. The advantage, which Mr. Vernon's travels might have been of to the public, was prevented by his unfortunate death near Ispahan in Persia in a contest with some Arabs about an English pen-knife, which he refusing to give them, they fell upon him and cut him to pieces. His body being conveyed to that city was interred there' (Birch 3:357-58).
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