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 241
T. 37.—Eumusia. on a footstool; the Cerberus placed on the right of his chair, and theeagle standing on the other side, show that this is a Pantheistic com-bination of two Deities in one. In the Roman period these blendedtypes were very common. Both the arms of this figure are modern ;the left has… … T. 39.—Heracles. did not originally hold a thunderbolt, but was directed downMards,as was usual in the figures of Jupiter Serapis. The next (T. 45) isa Comic Actor, or scenic figure. It is a figure seated on a squareplinth, with the face covered by a comic mask, having the featuresof a Satyr,…
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