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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 209

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rounds the head.This head is probably of the Macedonian period. It was formerlyin the Barberini Palace. Some small portions have been restored. T. 75 is a colossal head of Heracles, representing the hero inadvanced age, and exhibiting a remarkable hardness of character, andformality in the… … T. 77. T. 75. ancient boxer. This head has been copied from a work in bronze.The same character of wori<manship may be observed in the bas-relief of Heracles subduing the Maenalian stag. As a copy, itbelongs to the Roman period. It was found by Mr. Gavin Hamil-ton in 1769, at the Pantanella in…

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