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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 73

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e expression of the figureof the centaur is equally admirable. The Greek is represented ofmore than the natural size. In Carreys time this metope wasnearly perfect. No. 12 exhibits the complete overthrow of a Greek by his an-tagonist, who seems to be rushing forwards to seek a new victimto his… … No. 9.

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