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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 249

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Knight. A small bust of An-toninus Pius, formerly in the Bar-berini Palace at Rome, and a goodspecimen of the minute finish onthe busts of the Antonine period.A bust larger than life of whitemarble, much discoloured, per-haps by fire, and probably thatof Faustina the Younger, the wifeof Marcus… … 232 TOWNELEY SCULPTUEES. robe, and crowned with a wreath of corn, and with the sacred infulaeor fillets which were the appropriate marks of distinction worn bythat order of priests. A head of Annia Faustina, the wife of Aure-lius, commonly called Faustina the Younger; procured by Mr.Towneley, in…

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