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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 204

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No. 1. … TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. 187 pearance. The sockets of the eyes are now filled with plaster,but formerly were probably filled with onyx, or some similar ma-terial, in imitation of the natural eye. The expression of the coun-tenance is pleasing, and not so stern as in the last head. Thework, however, is…

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