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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 66

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ereins, which were probably, asin many other instances, of metal.This statue stood in that part ofthe Pediment which was mostexposed to the action of theweather: the surface has in con-sequence been greatly injured. No. 106 is all that remainsof a group which, judging fromCarreys drawings, appears… … ELGIN ROOM. 49 of this figure, belonged to the same group. The Goddess wouldthus be seated between her two children ; but the figure on the leftevidently belongs to the next group in the comi)osition. All thatnow remains is this fragment of the lap of the female figure, witha portion of the…

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