A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquitiesorder of the Trustees, 1877 - 156 pages |
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... heads and reliefs of Deities , and heroes of the Græco - Roman period ) • 75 SECOND GRECO - ROMAN ROOM ( The same continued , including the Townley Venus - the Discobolus - the Pourtalès Apollo ) THIRD GRECO - ROMAN ROOM . The same ...
... heads and reliefs of Deities , and heroes of the Græco - Roman period ) • 75 SECOND GRECO - ROMAN ROOM ( The same continued , including the Townley Venus - the Discobolus - the Pourtalès Apollo ) THIRD GRECO - ROMAN ROOM . The same ...
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... heads , chiefly colossal , of King Horus , Amenophis III . , and Thothmes III.- Tablet of Abydos - Lions from Mount Barkal - Statues of the goddess Sekhet - Egyptian paintings ) Northern Vestibule ( Earliest Egyptian sculptures ...
... heads , chiefly colossal , of King Horus , Amenophis III . , and Thothmes III.- Tablet of Abydos - Lions from Mount Barkal - Statues of the goddess Sekhet - Egyptian paintings ) Northern Vestibule ( Earliest Egyptian sculptures ...
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... head of each of them was placed an officer designated an Under Librarian . " 66 The increase of the collections soon rendered it necessary to pro- vide additional accommodation for them , Montague House proving in- sufficient . The ...
... head of each of them was placed an officer designated an Under Librarian . " 66 The increase of the collections soon rendered it necessary to pro- vide additional accommodation for them , Montague House proving in- sufficient . The ...
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... head and feet , it manages to find food even during the long winter of those regions ; the Yak of Thibet , the tail of which is used as a fly - flap by the Asiatics , and the curious Nepalese Budorcas . The continuation of the series of ...
... head and feet , it manages to find food even during the long winter of those regions ; the Yak of Thibet , the tail of which is used as a fly - flap by the Asiatics , and the curious Nepalese Budorcas . The continuation of the series of ...
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... heads . They are natives of Africa ; the most conspicuous are the Chacma , Anubis , the Tartarin , frequently represented on the Egyptian monuments , and the Mandrill or Rib- nosed Baboon , from West Africa , one of the specimens being ...
... heads . They are natives of Africa ; the most conspicuous are the Chacma , Anubis , the Tartarin , frequently represented on the Egyptian monuments , and the Mandrill or Rib- nosed Baboon , from West Africa , one of the specimens being ...
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Page 25 - Hudson, from an original by Richardson. Oliver Cromwell, by Walker (bequeathed, 1784, by Sir Robert Rich, Bart., to whose great-grandfather, Nathaniel Rich, Esq., then serving as a Colonel of Horse in the Parliament Army, it was presented by Cromwell himself). Mary Davis, an inhabitant of Great Saughall in Cheshire, taken 1668, "cetatis 74...
Page 144 - Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character, discovered on the site of Carthage, during Researches by Nathan Davis, Esq., 1856-58. 1863, fol. £1 5*.
Page 95 - Part of a series of sculptures which originally lined the two walls of a long narrow gallery, leading, by an inclined plane, from Kouyunjik towards the Tigris.
Page 96 - The next six (Nos. 51-56) formed originally part of a series illustrating the architectural works of that king, including, probably, the construction of the very edifice from which the slabs were obtained. On Nos. 51 and 52 is seen the conveyance of a colossal human-headed bull, lying sideways on a sledge, which is propelled, over wooden rollers, partly by ropes in front, partly by a lever behind. On one side...
Page 83 - Greeks heroon, and so greatly excelled all other sepulchral monuments in size, beauty of design, and richness of decoration, that it was reckoned one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, and the name Mausoleum came to be applied to all similar monuments.
Page 138 - Pelion, and Thetis consenting to be the bride of Peleus, in the presence of Poseidon and Eros. On the bottom of the vase, which is detached, is a bust of Atys.