Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 256
d upon its side, and very frequently lean-ing upon an urn placed horizontally, from themouth of which flows the wavy lines of water. There is in the Vatican a Roman representationof the River Nile as a colossal reclining figurewith long flowing hair and beard, like Zeus orPoseidon, holding a… … o <u H <: =^ THE SYMBOLIC INFLUENCE Father Thames has often figured In Punch o depicted by John Tennlel as an old man with lonj^hair and beard, not unhke his prototype, but some-what degraded and worse for wear. The Greek gods, too, and their Roman re-presentatives were each distinguished by…
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