A catalog of the antiquities and works of art, exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, in the month of May, 1861 (1869)
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, French, George Russell, 1803-1881, London (England). Ironmongers' Company · [S.l. : s.n.] · leaf 190
f Rome.The intaglio, a pale bright yellow sard, represents the skeleton of a man issuing from an Urn(the grave), of which it holds back the cover with one hand, and with the other gathers abranch from a palm-tree (a token of victory), before returning to the sepulchre. At the foot ofthe Urn, which… … The cutting of this subject, though minute, is exquisitely done, and the whole will bear theclosest scrutiny through a powerful glass ; and to give a better idea of its character, theillustration of the intaglio is enlarged to twice the size of the original. This most valuable andinteresting…
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