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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 248

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statue was purchasedfrom Mr. Millingen in 1821, but it is not known whence he pro-cured it. In attitude and general composition it resembles that ofM. Aurelius in the Mus. Capitol., Tome III. tab. Iviii. The following arc the Imperial busts in the collection, arrangedin chronological order: A bust… … Hadrian. TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. 231 Tiberius, also from Mr. Burkes collection. A bust of Nero, broughtfrom Athens by Dr. Askew in 1740, remarkable for the grandeur ofthe treatment, and probably an example of the contemporary Athenianschool of art. A bust of Vitellius. A bust of an Empress,…

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