A manual of ancient sculpture, Egyptian - Assyrian - Greek - Roman (1886)
Redford, George, d. 1895 · London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington · leaf 28
blocks of the hardest stone, perfect after thelapse of at least four thousand years, and likely to remain so tillthey encounter the fire that made the igneous rocks out of whichthey are hewn. These statues too, it should be clearly understood,are remarkable for excellence in the work, both as to… … Fig. 3.—Colossal Statues carved in the Eock ; in the time of Rhamses II.(B.C. 1200). On the banks of the Nile. astonishment of the world. It is conjectured that it was doneby immense labour with the chisel, the drill, and the wheel ofthe lapidary, aided with sand and emery for polishing. Noancient…
Sculpture, Ancient
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