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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

however, of Greek sculpture were few and unimportant,
and in most instances they cannot now he recognized with
certainty from the "brief entries in Sir Hans Sloane's
catalogue. Such as they were, they were chiefly derived
from the collection of John Kemp, an antiquary and
collector early in the eighteenth century (died 1717).
The Sloane Collection included the sepulchral vase,
No. 682 in the present volume; a small relief with two
dogs and a wild hoar ; a figure of Asclepios, a few heads,
busts, urns of marble or alabaster, and a few Greek and
Latin inscriptions.

Three of the pieces of sculpture in the Museum are
said by Sloane1 to have been derived from the Arundel
Collection, which was the first great collection of classical
antiques formed in this country. Thomas Howard, Earl
of Arundel (1585-1646), was the first Englishman who
employed agents to collect for him in Greece and the
Greek Islands, as well as in Italy. The collection thus
formed was broken up in the reign of Charles II. The
inscriptions were given by Henry Howard, afterwards
sixth Duke of Norfolk, to the University of Oxford in
1667. The sculptures were scattered. A part passed
through the hands of the Earls of Pomfret to the Uni-
versity of Oxford, while others were lost, or dispersed
among private collectors.2 The few examples named
above thus found their way into the original collection
of the British Museum. A more important fragment,
however, from the Arundel Collection was added to the

1 The entries in the Sloane Catalogue are :—" 218. A vase of red and
grey marble with green veins, with a cover from the Earl of Arundel's
Collections. 222. A busto of Tully (?) when young.—Arundel. 223, A
small Venus (?).—Arundel."

2 Michaelis, Ancient Marbles, p. 6.