Archaische Marmor-Skulpturen im Akropolis-Museum zu Athen
This is a photographic plate book from 1908 by the archaeologist Hans Schrader, published in Vienna by A. Hölder, with the Austrian Archaeological Institute, documenting archaic Greek marble sculptures held in the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The pictures show fragmentary headless torsos and limbs photographed against plain grey backdrops, mostly in paired front and side views. A designer might take from them the stark, weathered forms of early Greek sculpture, with drapery folds and stone surfaces that suggest carved texture for studies in classical form.
