Full Name: Donaldson, Thomas Leverton
Other Names:
- Thomas Donaldson
Gender: male
Date Born: 1795
Date Died: 1885
Home Country/ies: United Kingdom
Subject Area(s): ancient, Ancient Greek (culture or style), archaeology, architecture (object genre), and sculpture (visual works)
Career(s): educators
Overview
University College, London professor of architecture and archeaologist; involved in the debates regarding the polychromy of Greek architecture. Donaldson was part of a committee including Jacques-Ignace Hittorff and C. R. Cockerell, which met between 1836-1837 to determine whether the Elgin Marbles and other Greek statuary in the British Museum had originally been colored. They concluded that they had not, (their findings appear in the Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects for1842), despite Cockerell’s knowledge-and perhaps more–that other sculpture had.
Archives
- Donaldson, Thomas Leverton Correspondence, Royal Institute of British Architects. https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13738144, NRA 34213 Donaldson.
Contributors: Emily Crockett and Lee Sorensen