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 252
TURES. 1. Greek Monitments, mostly inscribed. We may presume that these monuments, for the most part, if notall, executed during the Roman period, have been used in com-memoration of Greek personages, the inscriptions on them being inthat language. The first we shall notice is a Greek sepulchral… … TOWNELEY SCULPTURES. 235 Apollo. Their right hands are placed upon their breasts to indicatethe Religious awe with which they are impressed. To the right,Apollo appears seated on the cortina or tripod cover, in the act ofdelivering his response ; between him and the Romans stand hismother and…
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