Handbook to the Antiquities in the British Museum: Being a Description of the Remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian, and Etruscan Art Preserved ThereMurray, 1851 - 472 Seiten |
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Seite 41
... youthful male figure , reclining on a lion's skin , in the attitude of Heracles on the silver coins of Crotona . It has been called Theseus , Heracles , Cephalus , Cecrops , Dionysos ( Bacchus ) , and Hermes ( Mercury ) . The name ...
... youthful male figure , reclining on a lion's skin , in the attitude of Heracles on the silver coins of Crotona . It has been called Theseus , Heracles , Cephalus , Cecrops , Dionysos ( Bacchus ) , and Hermes ( Mercury ) . The name ...
Seite 48
... perhaps Ino and Me- licertes . It has been called La- tona , on the supposition that another youthful figure , who ap- pears in Carrey on the left side of this figure , belonged to the same group . 48 GREEK ANTIQUITIES .
... perhaps Ino and Me- licertes . It has been called La- tona , on the supposition that another youthful figure , who ap- pears in Carrey on the left side of this figure , belonged to the same group . 48 GREEK ANTIQUITIES .
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... youthful figure attached to her right side . Arranged with and between the original marbles are casts of some fragments which have been discovered since Lord Elgin removed the statues of the Pediments . These are as follows ...
... youthful figure attached to her right side . Arranged with and between the original marbles are casts of some fragments which have been discovered since Lord Elgin removed the statues of the Pediments . These are as follows ...
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... youthful male figure pointing with the fore finger of his left hand towards four females who are approaching him , bearing sacrificial vessels , and whom he is apparently instructing in their duties . The second Slab , No. 24 ...
... youthful male figure pointing with the fore finger of his left hand towards four females who are approaching him , bearing sacrificial vessels , and whom he is apparently instructing in their duties . The second Slab , No. 24 ...
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... youthful charioteer , standing up , leans over the chariot and holds the reins of the horses , which resemble those on the staircase at Persepolis . The chariot is followed by a horse , attended on its near - side by a groom , who holds ...
... youthful charioteer , standing up , leans over the chariot and holds the reins of the horses , which resemble those on the staircase at Persepolis . The chariot is followed by a horse , attended on its near - side by a groom , who holds ...
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Seite 370 - And forty days were fulfilled for him ; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed : and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.
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Seite 116 - ... then, let the divinest of the muses, let Astronomy approach, and take him by the hand ; let her ' Come, but keep her wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Her rapt soul sitting in her eyes.
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Seite 5 - Notwithstanding with nature it cometh sometimes to pass as with art. Let Phidias have rude and obstinate stuff to carve, though his art do that it should, his work will lack that beauty which otherwise in fitter matter it might have had.
Seite 22 - Ladies' Gardener; or, Instructions in Gardening. With Directions for Every Month in the Year, and a Calendar of Operations. Eighth Edition. Woodcuts. Fcap.
Seite 12 - ARCHITECTURE. Being a Concise and Popular Account of the Different Styles prevailing in all Ages and Countries By JAKES FERGUSSON.