The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Restored in Conformity With the Recently Discovered Remains

Numbers showing the dimensions of the bulding in the Plates has been improved for better reading.
IN CONFORMITY WITH THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED REMAINS.
BY JAMES FERGUSSON, FELLOW ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS. AUTHOR OF THE ‘HANDBOOK OF ARCHITECTURE;’ ‘ESSAY ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF JERUSALEM,’ &c.
LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET 1862. The right of Translation is reserved.
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.
The Essay contained in the following pages has no pretension to being a complete account of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. All that has been attempted in the present instance is to recapitulate and explain the various data which have recently been brought to light for restoring that celebrated monument of antiquity; and to show in what manner these may be applied so as to perfect a solution of the riddle which has so long perplexed the student of classical architecture.
At some future period it may be worth while to go more fully and with more careful elaboration into the whole subject; but to do this as it should be done, would require more leisure and better opportunities than are at present at the Author’s disposal for such a purpose.
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May , 1862.

MAUSOLEUM AT HALICARNASSUS.
Of all the examples of the wonderful arts of the Greeks, the remains or the memories of which have come down to us, no one has excited such curiosity as the far-famed Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, or such regret that no fragments of it should have existed in our own days. All we knew of it, till very recently, was that the ancients themselves were inclined to look upon it as the very best specimen of architectural art which they possessed. For not only did they rank it as among the seven wonders of the world, but assigned it that pre-eminence—not because of its size or durability, but because of the intrinsic beauty of its design, and the mode in which it was ornamented.