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Sir William Gell FRS (29 March 1777 – 4 February 1836), pron. "Jell", was a British classical archaeologist and illustrator. He published topographical illustrations of Troy and the surrounding area in 1804.
William Gell. Nel 1827 Carlo Bonucci scriveva: “Il Cavalier William Gell visitò Pompei, dopo aver percorso il Peloponneso, la Troade, e l’Asia Minore, egli arrecò la sua patria d’un’opera, che titolò Pompejana,...e dalla quale l’Inghilterra mancava, fin da che Hamilton avea pubblicata la sua.
Sir William Gell was highly respected in his lifetime as a member of the Society of Dilettanti from 1807 who published extensively on topography and antiquities, especially those of...
Sep 26, 2018 · Descended from an established Derbyshire family and educated at Cambridge, William Gell embarked on several groundbreaking expeditions to the eastern Mediterranean at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
- Jason Thompson
- 2019
Jun 27, 2024 · This article offers an analysis of the preparation, publication and reception of the two separate versions of William Gell's Pompeiana, texts that exercised a formative influence over Victorian understanding of not just Roman Pompeii, but of domestic Roman life more broadly throughout the nineteenth century, and that highlight a ...
Sep 29, 2019 · Educated at Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Arts, Gell succeeded in getting himself attached to a diplomatic mission to the Ionian islands in 1803, beginning a lifetime of close engagement with the Mediterranean landscape and its classical past.
May 18, 2018 · Gell, Sir William (1777–1836). English archaeologist and antiquarian. His publications include Topography of Troy (1804), Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca (1807), Itinerary of Greece (1810), Itinerary of the Morea (1817), and other works.
