This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...were a Diskobolos, and a beautiful torso of a Venus, which has become famous by its eventful fortunes. When Locke sold his antiquities in subsequent years, the torso, for which the Empress of Russia had sanctioned the offer of eight hundred pounds, passed for the same sum into the possession of CHARLES ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...were a Diskobolos, and a beautiful torso of a Venus, which has become famous by its eventful fortunes. When Locke sold his antiquities in subsequent years, the torso, for which the Empress of Russia had sanctioned the offer of eight hundred pounds, passed for the same sum into the possession of CHARLES Lennox, Th1rd Duke Of R1chmond. This Duke of Richmond was a great lover of art, who, as early as the year 1758, had arranged in his house in Privy Gardens, Westminster, a gallery of plaster casts for the benefit of art students. Here the torso happened to be when a fire broke out in the house, A.D. 1791. The marble was much injured by the flames, and afterwards, at the sale of the Duke of Richmond's works of art, A.D. 1820, it was purchased for a guinea by a dealer in casts, who sold it again six weeks later to the painter Devis for fifteen pounds, soon after which it was transferred to the British Museum for the same price240. The Diskobolos was obtained by a member of the Dilettanti society, CHARLES DUNCOMBE, ESQ., who already possessed at his country seat of Duncombe Park a small number of statues and busts; to this he afterwards added a celebrated specimen, . a dog, which Horace Walpole reckoned among the best representations of animals in classical art"1. This dog 239 Note 224. 180. Anc. Marbles Brit. Mus. XI. 840 Nochden in Bottigcr's Amal-PI. 35. thca I11. Leipz. 1825, pp. 3--18. See Cat, art. Duncombe Park. Smith, NolUkens II. pp. 168--173, came from the collection of H. Constantine Jennings, of Shiplake, once an ardent customer of Cavaceppi's, whose art treasures were afterwards put up to auction"2. Among the customers of Nollekens was the Earl Of Exeter, who behaved in the most generous manner in the disposal of his...
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