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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 189

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cimens of ancient sculp-ture published by the Dilet-tanti Society in 1835. No. 20 is a Torso of a verybeautiful small statue of Venus,placed on a black wooden andmodern pedestal, which is hi-deous in itself, and inappro-])riafe to the apparent actionof the figure. There can belittle doubt, on… … 172 TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. there are three others in the British Museum which are identicalwith it in their attitude. In all of these, the Goddess appears stand-ing on one leg, and raising the foot of the other. The head, which islost, appears to have been carved out of a separate piece of marble,and…

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