Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations
A gallery handbook by William Sandys Wright Vaux, published by Murray in London in 1851, describing the British Museum's Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan collections for visitors and students. The wood-engraved outline plates copy sculpture, reliefs and vase scenes in thin unshaded contour, giving designers clean line drawings of draped figures, winged deities, banqueters and frieze processions that reproduce and enlarge well.
