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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 207

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the head, and thecountenance remarkably feminine.—Ahead of Apollo surrounded bj a broadfillet, from under which the hair flowsdown in long feminine tresses. Theexpression of the countenance is calmand majestic. Np. 47, another head ofApollo, with the hair rising to a peak over the forehead, and a… … T. 60. 190 TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. this Divinity may be gathered from a comparison of these heads. Thecountenance is long and oval, which the crobylos above the foreheadtended to lengthen still more, serving as an apex to the entireform ; in the contour we see combined a soft fulness and a…

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