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 (1851)
Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright), 1818-1885 · London : Murray · leaf 186
as inmany places been corroded and re-polished ; and the head, whichis restored, differs from the ])osition described by Pliny, in whichthe face is said to have been turned back towards the quoit aboutto be thrown by the right hand. There are four other ancientcopies of Myrons statue extant, and… … Discobolus. TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. 169 position of the head. This statue was found in 1791, in the groundsbelonging to Hadrians villa at Tibur (Tivoli). The left hand hasbeen restored. The third (T. 13), which is called a Nymph reposing after thefatigues of the Chase, but, more probably, an…
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