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 64
ation of the surface in places. Tiie skin andmuscles seem to have all the elasticity of real life. Traces of paintmay bo observed on different parts of the figure. No. 100 is a torso, which has been called Cecrops, Ares, andalso Erectheus. Though very much mutilated, the grand characterof the… … ELGIN ROOM. 47 seuting the feet of a statue in a striding position and the trunic of atree, may have belonged to this figure, though it has been formerlyassigned to the Pallas of the Eastern Pediment. No. 101 is a small fragment of the upper part of a femalehead. As it was discovered among the…
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