Nicholas Revett
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Nicholas Revett (1720 - 1804) was a Suffolk gentleman and amateur architect and artist.
He is best known for his famous work with James Stuart (1713-1788) documenting the ruins of ancient Athens. Its illustrations compose 5 folio volumes and include 368 etched and engraved plates, plans and maps drawn at scale. They were the first of their kind in studies of ancient Greece.
[edit] Works
- with James Stuart The Antiquities of Athens (1761).
