The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art (1860)
Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896, Wood, J. E, Davies, Benjamin Rees · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 222
olis. It is worthy of observation, that the texture of the remainingdrapery is fine ribbed, and in wavy lines, such as are frequentlyrepresented on early vases, and archaic sculpture. From itslightness and peculiar gauzy quality, it is only to be seen usedas an under garment; and where the figure… … BAS-BELIEF ON ONE OF THE SIDES OF THE HARPY TOMB, IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Here, however, it is the only garment to the limbs, and fromthe very want of an outer covering a serviceable argument maybe derived. Miiller regarded this as a repetition of the typeof the old Minerva Pohas, chiefly judging by…
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