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The style of this figure, as far as the subject will admit, is very elegant, and the drapery is
so disposed as to give the lower part the resemblance of a fluted column.
It has been reported that the removal of this figure occasioned particular uneasiness to the
present inhabitants of Athens, who state that from that period lamentations have been heard
every night on the spot which it occupied, supposed to proceed from the figures that are still
remaining.
What effect this doleful tale may have had on the minds of our British dilettanti at large
there are no particular means of ascertaining, but it is certain that an English nobleman has
had a fac simile of the Caryatis in the British Museum moulded in artificial stone, to be sent
to Athens for the purpose of replacing that which was taken away. Whether the remaining
five will be satisfied with this representative of their departed sister remains to be proved, hut
the circumstance is at least honourable to the feelings of the nobleman above mentioned.
Of the other two figures contained in this Plate, the one represents a young Esculapius,
the other a draped figure unknown.
The style of this figure, as far as the subject will admit, is very elegant, and the drapery is
so disposed as to give the lower part the resemblance of a fluted column.
It has been reported that the removal of this figure occasioned particular uneasiness to the
present inhabitants of Athens, who state that from that period lamentations have been heard
every night on the spot which it occupied, supposed to proceed from the figures that are still
remaining.
What effect this doleful tale may have had on the minds of our British dilettanti at large
there are no particular means of ascertaining, but it is certain that an English nobleman has
had a fac simile of the Caryatis in the British Museum moulded in artificial stone, to be sent
to Athens for the purpose of replacing that which was taken away. Whether the remaining
five will be satisfied with this representative of their departed sister remains to be proved, hut
the circumstance is at least honourable to the feelings of the nobleman above mentioned.
Of the other two figures contained in this Plate, the one represents a young Esculapius,
the other a draped figure unknown.