Edward Dodwell

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Edward Dodwell (1767 - May 13rd 1832), was made known as English archeologist.

Rich person, it had never to work to live. He passed his life to travel before settling definitively in Italy, in 1806, where he married a thirty year old woman his cadette.
He made his studies in Trinity College with Cambridge, and obtained his BA (equivalent of the license) in 1800.

He made two great voyages:

the first in 1801. Its principal stages were: Venice (April 29th); it arrived at Corfou on May 27th; he visited then Ithaque, Patras, the Phocide, the Béotie, Athens, the islands of the Égée, Troy and finally Constantinople.
the other in 1805-1806. Its principal stages were: Metz-native on February 1st, 1805, Zante, Missolonghi on February 12th, 1805, Delphes 28, Chéronée, Thèbes, to reach Athens on March 26th; he visited the Attic and the Thessalie, then remained with Athens until September 1805; he was with Égine on September 21st, 1805, with Salamine the 27, Éleusis the 30; it remained with Athens until November 28th, 1805; one finds it with Corinthe on December 1st, then Argos, Mycènes, Épidaure, Poros - Kalauria on December 16th, 1805; it settled with Corinthe until January 3rd, 1806; he visited Olympie on January 24th, Messène in February 1806, then Mégalopolis, the Temple of Apollo Epicourios de Bassae on February 17th, 1806, Sparte the 27, Tégée in March, Missolonghi on April 2nd, Corfou the 23, Messine on May 20th, and a return to Rome on September 18th, 1806.

He had visited Athens, Égine and the Peloponnese in company of William Gell. It is known that it had like another travelling companion Mr. Atkins.
In fact, Dodwell was prisoner of Napoleon, which had authorized it to travel. Its voyage was thus curtailed because it had to return to constitute prisoner with Rome in 1806.

There are of him works very estimated at the 19th century:

has Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece during the Years 1801,1805 and 1806 , 1819;
Views in Greece from Drawings. , London, 1821;
Views and Descriptions off Cyclopean, gold Pelasgic Remains, in Greece and Italy, with Constructions off has Later Period, Intended ace has Supplement to his Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece during the Years 1801,1805 and 1806. , London, 1834; translated into French: Sights and descriptions of cyclopean constructions of Greece and Italy , with a French text, Paris, 1834.

It had carried out itself nearly 400 drawings and its painter Pomardi 600.
It was also a large collector: it had a large collection of currencies, 115 bronzes and 143 vases.

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