Marbles and bronzes; fifty-two plates from selected subjects in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities; edited by H. B. Walters.
A 1928 photographic plate book published in London by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, made by its Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and edited by H. B. Walters for scholars and museum visitors. The sepia photographs show Greek and Roman marble busts and heads photographed against a dark brown ground, with the sculptures lit softly to bring out carved hair, eyes and musculature. A designer could take from them the restrained tonal range of early photographic reproduction and the classical portrait conventions of idealised faces, curled hair and bare shoulders.
