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 37
for its subject two single combats of two Lapithaeand two Centaurs. In the first, the attack of the Centaur ischecked by a Lapith, who has seized his off fore-leg, as he is inthe act of striking with it. In the second, the Centaur is pressed tothe ground by the left knee and arm of his opponent,… … of the figure on the left of the scene is lost. From what remains,the subject appears to represent a female in a defenceless position,firmly grasped by the left arm of a Centaur, who has forced back aLapith who had come to her assistance, and is preventing him bymain strength from striking with his…
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