Combe, Taylor [Editor]: A description of the collection of ancient Marbles in the British Museum: with engravings (Band 9) (London, 1842)

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hand, which with the whole arm is gone, he was probably hurling
an immense rock against Neptune, for his whole body seems
to be labouring with exertion, his head and right leg from the
hip to the ancle are wanting. At his feet is lying the body of
a third giant, who has fallen under the blows of the divinity, and
paid the penalty of his rash rebellion. Behind these, and at a
greater distance from Neptune, is the fourth giant, who has a
large rock in each hand, with which he is carrying on his attack;
his body is roused into strenuous action, and in this figure, as well
as in the others, the artist has skilfully and successfully exhibited
the ease and power with which these giants were supposed to
grasp and wield such rude and bulky masses, and the extraor-
dinary force with which they could propel them. His left arm
from the shoulder to the wrist is wanting, his right leg from the
knee, his left from a little below the hip, a part only of the foot
still remaining. None of the figures on this slab are in the same
condition as when seen by Stuart.