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PHIGALEIAN MARBLES. 178
The Phigaleian marbles were purchased, by order
of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of England,
at Zante, in 1814, at the expense of £15,000,
increased by a very unfavourable exchange to the
sum of £19,000. They were paid for out of the
Droits of Admiralty, and ordered to be deposited in
the British Museum. The proprietors of these
marbles were C. R. Cockerell, Esq., John Foster, Esq.,
M. Charles Haller de Hallestein, M. Jacques Linkh,
and a Prussian gentleman of the name of Gropius.
Each of these parties also stipulated for a set of casts
fiom the marbles when the different pieces should be
put together. The marbles arrived in England in the
autumn of 1815*.
These marbles were repaired, and placed in their
former as well as present situation in the Museum
under the care and superintendence of Richard
Westmacott, Esq.
Two distinct subjects form the composition on the
frieze of the Phigaleian marbles; the battle of the
Centaurs and the Lapithffi, and the contest of the
Greeks, or rather the Athenians and the Amazons.
One slab which is wanting appears to have belonged
'o the former subject.
The outline of the story of the first of these has
wen already told in the description of the metopes
°f the Parthenon. The second refers to the Ama-
' sia Fregio del Tempio <ii Apollo Epicurio in Arcadia designate
™gli originali da Gio. Maria Wagner, ed inciso da Ferdinando
Kuschweyb,' obi. fol. Roma, 1814: and a more elaborate work,
)vHh finished and numerous engravings, of a larger size, in 1826,
m German: ' Der Apollotempel zu Bassse in Arcadien und die
^elbst ausgegrabenen Bildwerke. Dargestellt und erlautert
torch O. M. Baron von Stackelberg.' Fol. Rom. 1826.
* Upon opening one of the boxes which contained ihem, a live
srwpion was found, which died in the course of three or four
»Urs. ...... ,.'.';'
The Phigaleian marbles were purchased, by order
of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of England,
at Zante, in 1814, at the expense of £15,000,
increased by a very unfavourable exchange to the
sum of £19,000. They were paid for out of the
Droits of Admiralty, and ordered to be deposited in
the British Museum. The proprietors of these
marbles were C. R. Cockerell, Esq., John Foster, Esq.,
M. Charles Haller de Hallestein, M. Jacques Linkh,
and a Prussian gentleman of the name of Gropius.
Each of these parties also stipulated for a set of casts
fiom the marbles when the different pieces should be
put together. The marbles arrived in England in the
autumn of 1815*.
These marbles were repaired, and placed in their
former as well as present situation in the Museum
under the care and superintendence of Richard
Westmacott, Esq.
Two distinct subjects form the composition on the
frieze of the Phigaleian marbles; the battle of the
Centaurs and the Lapithffi, and the contest of the
Greeks, or rather the Athenians and the Amazons.
One slab which is wanting appears to have belonged
'o the former subject.
The outline of the story of the first of these has
wen already told in the description of the metopes
°f the Parthenon. The second refers to the Ama-
' sia Fregio del Tempio <ii Apollo Epicurio in Arcadia designate
™gli originali da Gio. Maria Wagner, ed inciso da Ferdinando
Kuschweyb,' obi. fol. Roma, 1814: and a more elaborate work,
)vHh finished and numerous engravings, of a larger size, in 1826,
m German: ' Der Apollotempel zu Bassse in Arcadien und die
^elbst ausgegrabenen Bildwerke. Dargestellt und erlautert
torch O. M. Baron von Stackelberg.' Fol. Rom. 1826.
* Upon opening one of the boxes which contained ihem, a live
srwpion was found, which died in the course of three or four
»Urs. ...... ,.'.';'