- Bonomi MSS 43.2 (recto)
- Einzelstück
Teil vonJoseph Bonomi Collection
Note on a marble statue in the collection of Dr Lee of Hartwell and on the artistic representation of the effects of alcohol in the human body:
- pencil text on paper
- loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 43.1
- 11.1 x 18.1 cm
- [text] 'Statue of a man sleeping on a / wine skin in Pentelic marble. / S of this proper line long wide This statue in the / collection of Dr Lee of Hartwell is of excellent sculpture and probably / by an Athenian artist since it / is
madecarved out of a marble found in / the vicinity of Athens. / Very early indeed did the thinking and in / telligent man of antiquity such as poets / painters and sculptors describe and / pourtrayeach inwith admirable truth the effects / of persistant indulgence in alcoholic / beverages on the intellect and on the / external configuration of the human body / X They indeed had morethan we haveand better'