Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

by Sir Charles Fellows (1799-1860), in the course of his
journeys of 1838 and 1840.1

In 1846, permission was given by the Porte to the then
British Ambassador, Sir Stratford Canning, afterwards
Viscount Stratford de Eedcliffe (1786-1880), to remove'
twelve slabs of the frieze of the Mausoleum from Hali-
carnassos. These sculptures, long known to travellers,'-2
were taken from the walls of the castle of Budrum, and
presented by the Ambassador to the British Museum.

Ten years later the influence of Lord Stratford de
Eedcliffe was exerted to support Sir Charles Newton in
his explorations in Asia Minor. Sir Charles Newton
exchanged his position at the British Museum, in 1856,
for the post of British Vice-Consul at Mitylene, which he
held till 1859, and in that capacity he was able, on behalf
of the Trustees, to excavate the sites of the Mausoleum at
Ilalicarnassos, and of the temple of Demeter at Cnidos.
He also removed the archaic statues of Branchidae, and
collected several minor pieces of sculpture. The excava-
tions on the site of the Mausoleum added four slabs to tho
series presented by Lord Stratford de Eedcliffe in 1840.
One additional slab was purchased in 1865 of the Marchese
Serra, of Genoa.

While the excavations of the Mausoleum were in
progress, the Crimean campaign afforded an opportunity
to Col. Westmacott to form' a collection of sculptures from
Kertch and the neighbourhood, illustrating the later stages
of Greek art on the Euxine.

In the years 1860-1861, Captain, now General Sir E.
Murdoch Smith, E.E., and Commander E. A. Porcher, E.N.,

1 See p. 45, for a further account of the travels of Fellows.

2 Antiquities of Ionia, II. (1797), suppl., pi. 2.