Description:
A collection of 50 albumen prints, from the British Museum Series, numerous manuscript captions, slight age-related toning, photographs mounted to album, occasional light marginal foxing not affecting image, original maroon cloth with quarter morocco spine, retaining studs, title gilt to spine, slightly rubbed, folio, [London: W.A. Mansell, c.1897] The 50 photographs of antiquities in the British Museum, covering Greek, Roman and Etruscan Statues and Vases, including 24 of the Parthenon Frieze. Many of the images are accompanied by manuscript captions. Other photographs include:
Horse of Selene, Ilissos, "Colossal Lion", [The Piranesi Vase] "Marble Vase (found in the Villa of Hadrian at Tivoli)", "Mercury", "Venus de Medici", "The "Townley" Venus", "Venus Entering Bath", "Apollo as a Player of the Lyre, from Cyrene", "Hercules", Hercules found in Hadrian's villa at Tivoli, Drum of Sculptured Column from Temple of Diana [Artemision], Ephesus, "Casts from Balustrade of Temple of Wingless Victory -… Read More