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 192
No. 40*. 174 TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. entirely naked, there are no symbols remaining whereby the form ofthat hero can be with certainty identified. The great musculardevelopment, however, renders it probable that this attribution iscorrect. The surface of the marble is in good preservation—itslength… … T. 7. bent under him, and the other stretched out: he holds with bothhands a part of an arm, and is biting it: his countenance, the mean-while, admirably expressing the malice and revenge with which he isactuated. This statue probably belonged to a group composed oftwo boys who had quarrelled at…
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