Inside Out Library · Explore

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 216

An illustration from 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, leaf 216
nsiderableresemblance, in general character, to the facesof the Niobids. The hair, parted along thetop of the head, is drawn back on each sideand gathered into a knot behind. The headand part of the neck only are antique. This,like the last head, was brought from Romeby Mr. Lyde Browne. T. 243 is a… … TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. 199 Besides the preceding busts which we have thought deserving ofa fuller description, arc a few more, whose character appears to bemythological; we shall briefly enumerate them here. They are—a bust of a Muse crowned with laurel, and found at Frascati; a bustfrom a statue of…

British Museum · Art, Ancient · Antiquities

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from 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

More like this