Travel, Pictures, and a Victorian Gentleman in Greece

by Deborah Harlan

Hesperia, Volume 78, Issue 3
Page(s): 421-453
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25622703
Year: 2009
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ABSTRACT:

The rise of mass tourism in the late 19th century coincided with advances in photographic technology that made it easier for travelers to document their journeys. In the 1890s, the clergyman and scientist T. R. R. Stebbing made a photographic record of his travels in the eastern Mediterranean. Stebbing's images reproduce a way of looking at antiquity prescribed by 19th-century guidebooks, thereby encoding a conventional Western view of antiquity. Incorporated into an academic network of slide collections, Stebbing's images contributed to an authoritative scholarly construction of the classical world in Britain during the early 20th century.