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A descriptive catalogue of the bronzes of European origin in the South Kensington Museum (1876)

South Kensington Museum, Fortnum, C. Drury E. (Charles Drury Edward), 1820-1899 · London : Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode and sold by Chapman & Hall · leaf 250

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hind over her right arm, and is caughtup by the left hand. Her neck and breaft are bare ; a drapery girdledround the waift falls away from the left knee and backward over theright leg ; fandals protect her feet. The modelling of the figure has been alliduoufly ftudied, and itsexecution in the metal… … ^scribed io Fictro Franca v:..: . INo. 85. 65 Statuettes. 21 Grounded on the fchool of Angelo, we dete£l here the fofter in- Italian.fluence of the period and manner of John of Bologna, of the latterdecades of the i6th century, but doubt its being by his hand. It mayperhaps with greater probability…

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