Comments by "leafy" (@leafy803) on "Sunak accused of "picking fight" with Greek PM over Elgin Marbles" video.

  1. Written video description lists BBC asked the Greek Prime Minister the question on that topic. Yes gave response. They were meeting to discuss other issues.
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  2. 'In July of 1801, Elgin wrote to Giovanni Battista Lusieri, an Italian painter he employer to coordinate his marble collection in Athens: "I should wish to collect as many marble as possible. I have other places in my house which need it, and besides, one can easily multiply ornaments of beautiful marble without overdoing it."... 1816 parliamentary committee convened to evaluate Elgin's request that the British government purchase the Parthenon marbles from him. (Parliament went on to vote 82 to 30, to buy them and give them over to the British Museum)' According to the paper, the government's committee report stated an Italian translation of the permit for removal was signed by the Ottoman Empires Grand Vazier Abdullah Kaimacan. (Commonsense would be a translation is not signed, so does it list who signed the original) Title: DID ELGIN CHEAT AT MARBLES?, By: Rudenstine, David, Nation Source: brown edu online
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  3. 'ELGIN, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl (1766-1841). Autograph letter signed (‘Elgin’) to C.R. Broughton, B[room]hall, 13 June 1812. Two pages, 224 x 183mm, bifolium, integral address leaf (repaired seal tear). Lord Elgin eagerly reports on the arrival of the Elgin Marbles and the possibility of their sale to the British Government. After expressing some frustration at the state of his accounts, Elgin announces triumphantly the arrival of his Marbles: ‘I am very happy to say, all my Marbles are safe arrived – So that nothing is now in the way of an arrangement with Government – By which, I trust, to be very shortly above all the Embarassement in which you have so kindly helped me. What I now want is only till that transaction’. Following the removal to Britain in 1812 of his final collection of Parthenon marbles – a shipment totalling around 80 cases – Elgin’s flagging hopes of negotiating a sale to the nation were revived, and with them, his chances of clearing the large debts he had incurred since 1801, when he first encountered the marbles. His financial difficulties would not be alleviated immediately: it would take until 1816, after a select committee of the House of Commons pronounced that Elgin had not misused his powers in removing the marbles, that the government would commit to their purchase, entrusting them henceforth to the British Museum.' Source: Christie's Auction
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