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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 191

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stany of the numerous statues now existing which represent Cupid inthe act of bending his bow. The lions skin is not an unusual accom-paniment of the statues of this Divinity, alluding probably either tohis influence over the brute creation, or over Heracles, of whom thelions skin is a type. Thus,…

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