ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how an architect's approach to history and stories can inform their conception of architecture and its sites through a survey of reconstruction drawings produced by Charles Robert Cockerell's contemporaries, and by contrasting Plate X to other drawings in similar publications. It considers that Published in 1860, Plate X can be measured against a longer tradition of Grand Tour publications. In this plate, Cockerell consciously shows signs of his presence on site in the process of working on this very picture. He assembles architectural fragments inside the temple, but also includes his drawing materials, a dog, and a rifle. Part-sketch, part-measured drawing, part-reality, part-imaginary, Cockerell's Plate X was based on a drawing done at the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae in 1811. Finally, in Plate X, observers are not only presented with a rich temporal and spatial composition, they are themselves confronted by the power of the fragments.
