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The Townley Gallery (1836)

British Museum, Townley, Charles, 1737-1805 · London : C. Knight · leaf 181

An illustration from The Townley Gallery, 1836, leaf 181
nches in length, by ten inches in width, and was purchased at the sale of Lord Besborough’s marbles at Roehampton, in 1801. Part of a sepulchral Bas-relief, twelve inches and a half, by eight inches, representing a funeral banquet. Room XI. No. 8. Three ancient marbles : One, a sepulchral Monument,… … The second, also a sepulchral Monument, is a Bas- relief representing a family of seven persons preparing to sacrifice a Pig to two Deities, seated at a funeral banquet. A horse’s head is seen at a window.

Townley, Charles, 1737-1805 · British Museum · Sculpture, Classical

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