Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 4): Vases of the latest period (London, 1896)

PREFACE.

The present volume of the Vase Catalogue has been prepared by Mr. Walters.
It has been read and revised by myself and by Mr. A. H. Smith of this
Department.

The task which Mr. Walters had before him in the Introduction was to
describe and characterise the various styles of Vase-painting in the period
here under notice, and to indicate how far the different changes of style had
been due to local circumstances, to the increasing influence of the Drama,
to the shifting of the centre of production from Greece proper to Magna
Graecia, or to other causes. This he has done in a full and interesting
manner.

Illustrations are given of thirty vases hitherto unknown in engravings
or in other forms of reproduction, and it may now be said that no important
vase of this period in the collection remains unpublished.

A. S. Murray.

Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
ii Feb, 1896.