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 60
and hands arc gone, but tiie rest of the figures are well jjroscrved,and, like the Heracles, arc finished as coniplotcly at the back whichis withdrawn from the view, as in front. 42 GREEK ANTIQUITIES. No. 05 represents Iris, the messenger of the Olympian deities,and especially of Juno, on her way… … Xi). 95. No. 96 represents the Wi7iged Yictory. There can be but littledoubt about this attribution, the holes still remaining at the back ofher shoulders into which the wings have been inserted ; the wingsthemselves were doubtless of metal, probably of bronze gilded. Thisfigure was probably placed…
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