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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 224

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to the Florentine collection. The place where the quiver wasattached is still very perceptible, as well as the holes and the metalwhereby it was fastened to the marble. The whole of the right arm, the left from the elbow downwards—both Icct, and a portion of the right leg extending nearly as high… … T. 44.—Canephora. T. 32. Fortune. TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. 207 when in her character of huntress. The depth to which the draperyhas l)een cut is remarkable. This statue was found in 1772, near La Storta, about eight milesfrom Rome, on the road leading to Florence, on the same spot wherea group we shall…

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