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1583. Torso ot Aphrodite, finely modelled. The figure
appears to have stood principally on the right leg, and
to have been quite nude. The left thigh was somewhat
raised.
Parian marble. Height, 2 feet 5 inches. Restored : left thigh. The
marble is said to have been found at Antium about 1770. It
was sold by Jenkins at Rome to Mr. Locke, of Norbury Park, who
had it restored by the sculptor Wilton, and afterwards removed
the restorations. For the restoration the fractures of the limbs
were cut off straight. Mr. Locke sold the torso for about £800
to the third Duke of Richmond, about the year 1790. In 1791
the torso was burned and broken in a fire at Richmond House,
and was again mended and restored by Wilton. In 1820, at a
sale of lumber from Richmond House, the torso was sold for a
guinea, and after it had changed hands it was bought by the
British Museum in 1821. See Xoehden, in Bottiger, Amalthea,
III., p. 5, and pi. 2 ; Mus. Marbles, XL, pi. 35; Ellis, Town.
Gall., L, p. 268 (= Vaux, Handbook, p. 172); Friederichs,
Bausteine, No. 592 ; Grwco-Roman Guide, I., No. 172 ; Bernoulli,
Aphrodite, p. 208; Michaelis, Journ. of Hellen. Stud., VIII.,
p. 337; Reinach, Repertoire de la Statuaire, II., p. 368, fig. 6.
1584. Aphrodite. Nude statuette, broken off below the knees.
She stands with the left knee bent, and with the right
hand resting on the right thigh. Both arms are wanting.
The left hand may have rested on a support (perhaps the
Priapus support, No. 1723), which was also joined to the
left thigh. The face is mutilated. The hair is massed
over the temples, and brought round to the back. She
seems to wear a large wreath. Late work.—The Cyrenaica.
Parian marble. Height, 11 inches. Excavated by Mr. G. Dennis,
1868.
1585. Aphrodite, armed, and Erotes (?). Statuette of a nude
female figure standing to the front. She has a sword
sheath slung from her right shoulder, at her left side. On
her right is an Eros, seated, nude, and holding some object,
perhaps a helmet. On the left is a draped figure (restored
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1583. Torso ot Aphrodite, finely modelled. The figure
appears to have stood principally on the right leg, and
to have been quite nude. The left thigh was somewhat
raised.
Parian marble. Height, 2 feet 5 inches. Restored : left thigh. The
marble is said to have been found at Antium about 1770. It
was sold by Jenkins at Rome to Mr. Locke, of Norbury Park, who
had it restored by the sculptor Wilton, and afterwards removed
the restorations. For the restoration the fractures of the limbs
were cut off straight. Mr. Locke sold the torso for about £800
to the third Duke of Richmond, about the year 1790. In 1791
the torso was burned and broken in a fire at Richmond House,
and was again mended and restored by Wilton. In 1820, at a
sale of lumber from Richmond House, the torso was sold for a
guinea, and after it had changed hands it was bought by the
British Museum in 1821. See Xoehden, in Bottiger, Amalthea,
III., p. 5, and pi. 2 ; Mus. Marbles, XL, pi. 35; Ellis, Town.
Gall., L, p. 268 (= Vaux, Handbook, p. 172); Friederichs,
Bausteine, No. 592 ; Grwco-Roman Guide, I., No. 172 ; Bernoulli,
Aphrodite, p. 208; Michaelis, Journ. of Hellen. Stud., VIII.,
p. 337; Reinach, Repertoire de la Statuaire, II., p. 368, fig. 6.
1584. Aphrodite. Nude statuette, broken off below the knees.
She stands with the left knee bent, and with the right
hand resting on the right thigh. Both arms are wanting.
The left hand may have rested on a support (perhaps the
Priapus support, No. 1723), which was also joined to the
left thigh. The face is mutilated. The hair is massed
over the temples, and brought round to the back. She
seems to wear a large wreath. Late work.—The Cyrenaica.
Parian marble. Height, 11 inches. Excavated by Mr. G. Dennis,
1868.
1585. Aphrodite, armed, and Erotes (?). Statuette of a nude
female figure standing to the front. She has a sword
sheath slung from her right shoulder, at her left side. On
her right is an Eros, seated, nude, and holding some object,
perhaps a helmet. On the left is a draped figure (restored
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