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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ig eirl yovvaaiv^ E. vi. 303,) and, praying, supphcated. Thus might fancy picture the proto-type of this ancient and simply disposed figure, whose attitudeseems best adapted for the purpose, raised on a pedestal, withthe ever-burning lamp of Cahmachus before it, and wraptin the many-folded vestment, gorgeous and heavy from itsembroideries. Such drapery could only be adapted to lie uponso flat a surface, unless applied to a standing figure of colossalproportions, and even then the limbs must have been disposedin more violent action. Whether so really primitive a figurewould have been represented sitting may admit of doubt, but itwas the opinion stated by the learned Professor after he hadseen my drawing, and as such entitled to the utmost respect;though Scholl, who does not incline to its exhibiting an earlytype, seems, by the wording of his notes, to indicate waveringupon the part of his distinguished fellow-traveller. George Scharf, Jun. March 22ncl, 1851. * Wordsworth, pp. 136, 127.
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Muieum of Class-. THREE VIEWS OF A VERY ANCIENT STATUE,ON THE ACROPOLIS OF ATHENS 193 XVII.NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1.—Rev. John Collingwood Bruce, M.A. The Roman Wall: a Historical,Topographical, and Descriptive Account of the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus.8vo. Newcastle, 1851. John R. Smith, London; W. Sang, G. B. Rich-ardson, Newcastle. Archaeology, instead of being now an abstruse and dry study, is become an inte-resting and a fashionable one. Instead of the cumbrous tomes of Horsley and ofHodgson, works which, with all their learning and research, are unattainable andperhaps unknown to the general reader, we have in the elegant volume before us awell digested compendium of those earlier works, together with a statement of theauthors personal investigations, and of the more accurate inductions which he isthereby enabled to draw—the whole presented to us in a clear and succinct manner,doing credit alike to the authors literary taste and to his antiquarian study. On the conqu

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