34 ; and above, Fig. 21), the vine (Fig. 47), and the tall reeds andgrasses of the marsh (Fig. 119) are also imitated.1 We feel that the sculptor wished to reproduce all those sub-ordinate features of nature by which his eye was amused on theAssyrian plains ; he seems almost to have taken… … Fig. 119.—Marsh vegetation ; from Layard. The sculptor is not content with retracing, in a spirit of uncom-promising reality, all the operations implied by so great an under-taking ; he gives backgrounds to his pictures in which he introduces,on a smaller scale, many details that have nothing to do…
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