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The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)

London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 421

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f-dceuvres, little inferior to those of the days of Periclesand Alexander. The head is very fine; the hair braided with graceand of exquisite workmanship. This statue could onlybe raised from the earth in detached pieces, it having ANTINOUS. been mutilated in more than twenty places; but it hasbeen… … ■ BOY PLUCKING A THORN. ANTIQUE STATUE, IN BRONZE. The attitude of this figure has given it the nameby which it is vulgarly known. The elegance of theattitudes, the naivete and simplicity of the action, placeit on a rank with the best statues in bronze which havedescended to us. The head and the…

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