Palmyra. Asia - Syria - . deserted settlement. Longitude: 38.2833. Latitude: 34.5500.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Commonplace Book containing drawings of scenery, characters, flora and fauna and miscellanous verse.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13650
Scope and Contents
This volume contains numerous illustrations including the `Costume of the Ladies of Edinburgh, Spring 1828`, a drawing of the Water of Leith, a man in Albanian costume in southern Italy, the ruins of a Roman temple in Palmyra in Syria, together with flora and fauna. There are also verses from Shakespeare, Byrone, Washington Irving, Sir Walter Raleigh, Milton and James Thomson.
Dates:
1828-1847, undated.
Manuscript of an account by Michael Bruce of a journey made in the company of Lady Hester Stanhope to view the ruins of Palmyra., 1813.
Item
Identifier: MS.42561
Scope and Contents
The manuscript would appear to be incomplete. It was given by Bruce to John Murray II.
Dates:
1813.