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Combe, Taylor [Editor]
A description of the collection of ancient Marbles in the British Museum: with engravings (Band 8) — London, 1839

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was once held in the right hand. The drapery of iEsculapius con-
sists of the large and full peplus, which covers the lower parts of
the person, and allows enough to be brought up to form a cushion
at the top of the staff upon which he is leaning.

This group is four feet in length, and occupies the extreme
right of the slab which contains the subjects of Plates II. and III.

Immediately beyond the group above described were two others,
which balanced those on the opposite side of the avenue ; of the
fate of these no record exists; they had disappeared in Stuart's
time, a. d. 1751> but they were in their places in 1674 when
Carrey made his drawings for the Marquis de Nointel, and from
these is taken the annexed wood-cut.

Visconti states that "the Count de Choiseul Gouffier found means
to procure a cast of the last." We apprehend that the last figure,
not the last group, is here intended, for we have never seen any
cast of more of this group than the boy and portion of the female
figure which appear in our Plate V. and we suspect that they are
all which existed when the Count de Choiseul Gouffier was at
Athens. Carrey's drawings give these groups entire, but as they do
not form part of the Museum collection, we will content ourselves
 
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