in his eighties. He was also the recipient of the festschrift "The Eye of Greece" edited by Donna Kurtz and Brian A. Sparkes. Poetry As a poet Robertson published various collections, including Crooked Connections (1970), For Rachel (1972), A Hot Bath at Bedtime (1975), and The Sleeping Beauty's Prince (1977). Family He was married to (Theodosia) Cecil, née Spring Rice. Thomas Dolby is their son. Selected publications The Art of Vase-painting in Classical Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992 Greek, Etruscan and Roman Vases in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. Liverpool: National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside/Liverpool University Press, 1987. Greek Painting. Geneva: Skira, 1959 The Parthenon Frieze. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975 Between Archaeology and Art History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain. Castle Ashby, Northampton. Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy, 1979 Why Study Greek Art? An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at University College, London. London: H. K. Lewis & Co., 1949. References Sources Article by Ian Jenkins (curator at the British Museum) Entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Biographical obituary Biographical obituary Biographical obituary Biographical obituary Festschrift with biographical foreword and a full bibliography Scholars of ancient Greek pottery 1911 births 2004 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Lincoln Professors of Classical Archaeology and Art British male poets 20th-century British poets 20th-century British male writers