James Stuart (1713-88) and Nicholas Revett's (172o-1804) pioneering Antiquities ofAthens, conceived as early as 1748, was overtaken by several parallel and rival undertakings by the time their first volume appeared in London in 1762 [4], notably, and much to Stuart's chagrin, by the Frenchman Julien David Leroy's Ruins ofthe Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece, rushed into publication in 1758.
