A GUIDE то THE SCULPTURES OF THE PARTHENON IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. [Based on the Third Edition of Part II., Volume I., of a Catalogue of LONDON: PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES. 1908. Arch 82 1908 LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, DUKE STREET, STAMFORD STREET, S.E., AND GREAT WINDMILL STREET, W. THE present Guide is based on the third edition of Part II., Vol. I., of the Catalogue of Sculpture in the British Museum (1892). According to the plan of that work, its separate parts were issued singly as well as collectively. Part II. of Volume I., dealing with the Sculptures of the Parthenon, was quickly exhausted. It was reissued, with considerable alterations, in 1900 and 1906, and is now out of print. In the present edition its form has been changed. The historical portions have been amplified; the formal descriptions and copious references, appropriate to a catalogue, have been abbreviated, and their full statement is reserved for a new edition of the Catalogue of Sculpture. Several new illustrations have also been added. A large illustrated work on the Parthenon sculptures is in preparation, and it has been thought desirable to seize the opportunity of re-numbering the figures of the Frieze in order to bring them, as far as possible, into conformity with the system followed in the standard work of Michaelis, Der Parthenon. References to the Plates in the new work have been inserted under the title "Sculptures of the Parthenon." It has not, however, yet been possible to give the Platereferences for the fragments. March, 1908. CECIL SMITH. |