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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 205

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o which no numbers are as yet at-tached : of these, we take first, threeheads of Artemis or Diana, one ofthem originally in the collection ofSir William Hamilton, the second procured at Rome l)y Mr. Gavin Hamilton, and the third bequeathedby Mr. Payne Knight. In the two former the hair is… … 188 TOWNELEY SCULPTURES, they express simply serenity and sweetness. Generally, the cha-racter of the countenance of Artemis, in ancient works of art, is thatof her brother Apollo, only with less prominent forms, more tenderand more rounded, the hair hound up over the forehead in a corymbos,but…

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