Illustrations of the remains of Roman art, in Cirencester, the site of antient Corinium (1850)
Buckman, James, 1816-1884, Newmarch, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1824-1903 · London, G. Bell; Cirencester, Baily and Jones · leaf 143
here depicted are brought togetheron the same vessel, not that they are all concerned in a story to be told,but simply because the stamps happened to be at hand, and this serves,both in its materials, and the proportions of the forms, to illustrate thestrange incongruities in subjects met with in… … 26. Statue of Hercules. The details on either side of the figure are sufficiently curious, theyappear to be large festoons, each enclosing a kind of flower. The principal bowl in Figure 19 has a statue of Jupiter in one compart-ment, whilst in another the God, in the form of a Bull, is carrying…
Art, Roman · Cirencester (England) -- Antiquities, Roman
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