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BUST OF A ROMAN OF HADRIAN’S AGE. (Hoikham Hall.)
[Marble. Height of bust (exclusive of the base) 0-56, of head
0-24. Reproduction of lower part of bust was impossible owing to
its high and difficult position. Head has been broken in two and
separated from bust, but, in spite of very regular line of break across
the neck, the whole seems to belong together and to be quite genuine.
Restored in marble : nose, right brow, with adjoining part of fore-
head, •some locks over right ear, part of left cheek, base and half of
inscription plate ; in plaster: left ear and part of moustache.
Pupils not drilled, but running drill applied to some extent in hair.]
The bust, which according to the family records was acquired
in 1752, does not represent Hadrian, as Bernoulli states following
Michaelis, and is not restored beyond recognition. It is a Roman of
Hadrian’s age, an aristocratic type like no. 64, with severe countenance,
watchful eyes, and harsh upturned gaze, firm and hard mouth, with
thin lips and drawn-down angles. The forehead is strongly accen-
tuated, with defiant wrinkles and arched brows. He is one of those
hard, embittered senators of the imperial age, excluded from the
power which they felt themselves strong and clever enough to
possess, and discontented with being under the necessity of revenging
themselves on the new rulers by attacking the fair fame of the emperors,
which they themselves or their literary friends could disparage with
their sharp and clever pens.
(Michaelis, p. 303, no. 9 ; Bernoulli, Rom. Ikon. ii. 2, p. 116, no. 95.)
BUST OF AN OLD MAN. (Hoikham Hall.)
[Head by means of a modern neck is set on a bust, which is
ancient to middle of base, but which perhaps does not belong, as it
66
BUST OF A ROMAN OF HADRIAN’S AGE. (Hoikham Hall.)
[Marble. Height of bust (exclusive of the base) 0-56, of head
0-24. Reproduction of lower part of bust was impossible owing to
its high and difficult position. Head has been broken in two and
separated from bust, but, in spite of very regular line of break across
the neck, the whole seems to belong together and to be quite genuine.
Restored in marble : nose, right brow, with adjoining part of fore-
head, •some locks over right ear, part of left cheek, base and half of
inscription plate ; in plaster: left ear and part of moustache.
Pupils not drilled, but running drill applied to some extent in hair.]
The bust, which according to the family records was acquired
in 1752, does not represent Hadrian, as Bernoulli states following
Michaelis, and is not restored beyond recognition. It is a Roman of
Hadrian’s age, an aristocratic type like no. 64, with severe countenance,
watchful eyes, and harsh upturned gaze, firm and hard mouth, with
thin lips and drawn-down angles. The forehead is strongly accen-
tuated, with defiant wrinkles and arched brows. He is one of those
hard, embittered senators of the imperial age, excluded from the
power which they felt themselves strong and clever enough to
possess, and discontented with being under the necessity of revenging
themselves on the new rulers by attacking the fair fame of the emperors,
which they themselves or their literary friends could disparage with
their sharp and clever pens.
(Michaelis, p. 303, no. 9 ; Bernoulli, Rom. Ikon. ii. 2, p. 116, no. 95.)
BUST OF AN OLD MAN. (Hoikham Hall.)
[Head by means of a modern neck is set on a bust, which is
ancient to middle of base, but which perhaps does not belong, as it