Burrow, Edward John: The Elgin marbles: with an abridged historical and topographical account of Athens (Band 1): Illustrated with forty plates (London, 1817)

and though perhaps designed by one, must
have been wrought by various sculptors. It
is easily to be ascertained by minute and par-
ticular examination, that the same facility of
hand and intrinsic marks of professional know-
ledge are not to be found in all alike. The
statues on the Tympana, with perhaps one
exception, appear to be the productions of
the same mind, and to be finished by the
same tool. It is fair to ask those who tell us,
that "we may venture to check that mistaken
enthusiasm, which venerates the sculptures as
the work of Phidias*"—it is but reasonable to
ask them, to whom we may, with any show
of probability, attribute these statues, that is,
the best of them, if not to Phidias? We can-
not, it is true, read inscribed upon the marble,
QeiMug p hminop " Phidias made me" but the
characters which are traced on every part are
scarcely less intelligible; and these declare,
that no one was capable of such works, but
He. Where direct witness cannot be borne,
negative will sometimes be admitted as con-
clusive; and here it is of more than usual

* Wilkins's Athenimsia, p. 130*