The image shows, in the foreground, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Olympian_Zeus,_Athens" class="extiw" title="en:Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens">columns of the Olympian Zeus</a> and, in the background, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_of_Athens" class="extiw" title="en:Acropolis of Athens">Acropolis</a>. The notes of the photographer (see below) provide more details about the image. Print of an engraving based on a daguerreotype photograph taken by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Gustave_Joly_de_Lotbini%C3%A8re" class="extiw" title="en:Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière">Pierre-Gustave Joly</a> (Joly de Lotbinière) in October, 1839. Engraved by Appert. Published with the caption <i>L'Acropolis à Athènes</i> in <i>Excursions daguerriennes</i>, Noël Paymal Lerebours publisher, Paris, first published in 1840 and 1841. This reproduction is from a reedition published in 1842.<br><br>Excerpt from the notes of Pierre-Gustave Joly:<br>"October 1839. View of the columns of Olympian Jupiter, taken from the left bank of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilisos" class="extiw" title="en:Ilisos">Ilyssos</a>, from the stadium. There are 16 columns; above the last two columns of the main group, there is a small rough structure into which had lived an ascetic or holy man, so the people call those columns the fool's columns ; at their foot is seen the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Hadrian_(Athens)" class="extiw" title="en:Arch of Hadrian (Athens)">Arch of Hadrian</a> on which is written on the side: here is the city of Hadrian. That arch is much taller than it looks here, the level of the base being below that of the columns of Jupiter. In the backgroud the Acropolis and the temple of Minerva or Parthenon."
Photographer: Pierre-Gustave Joly (1798-1865)<br>Engraver: Appert
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