 The French artist Jacques Carrey in 1674 visited the Acropolis and sketched the Parthenon's sculptural decorations.Early in 1687, an engineer named Plantier sketched the Parthenon for the Frenchman Graviers d’Ortières.These depictions, particularly those made by Carrey, provide important, and sometimes the only, evidence of the condition of the Parthenon and its various sculptures prior to the devastation it suffered in late 1687 and the subsequent looting of its art objects.