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Three-quarter view of free-standing bronze statue of Danaid fastening dress at shoulder (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5619, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC), with diagrams of peplos and measurements

Three-quarter view of free-standing bronze statue of Danaid fastening dress at shoulder (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 5619, 3rd quarter of 1st century BC), with diagrams of peplos and measurements:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted
  • 26.1 x 37.9 cm
  • [on sketch] 'The measurements taken with the Passetto / all round the edge A measured with a string maxed is 7.2 1/2 / From B to the edge A is 1 „ 6 measured down the middle of the statue / From the corner A+ to the hem C measures 2 „ 4 / From the bottom of the hem D to the top C measures 3 „ 3 1/2 / Round the bottom edge D measures 5 „ 2 / From the edge A to the bottom D measures 3 „ 1 (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] This represents the half of the dress or rather folded in two' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'as the figure has a belt that supports the dress becaus it throws over at C which is the inside surface of the dress therefore the measure 6.1 is uncertain but it cannot be less therefore the measurement 33 1/2 must be too little or the dress must form half a circle, there where is the angle A+' (pencil note)
  • [key to measurements annotated in sketch and one diagram] 'A / B / C / D / A+' (pencil note)

Three views of horse's head

Three views of horse's head:

  • pencil sketches on paper, mounted on pink paper
  • loose
  • [left] 5.2 x 5.7 cm, [middle] 4.2 x 6.0 cm, [right] 5.1 x 5.7 cm (19 x 6.4 cm with mount)

Three sketches of objects in the Hertz collection (hieroglyphic inscription of kohl pot, bronze statuette of classical goddess and amulet or seal) and squeeze of seal(?)

Three sketches of objects in the Hertz collection (hieroglyphic inscription of kohl pot, bronze statuette of classical goddess and amulet or seal) and squeeze of seal(?):

  • pencil sketches and squeeze on paper
  • loose
  • 18.4 x. 11.4 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Cohol blue porcelain vase / in Hertz Col' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'bronze in / Heztr [sic] / Col' (pencil note)

Three seated figures with four attendants

Three seated figures with four attendants:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose, adjacent to p. 7; too small to be the item originally mounted there
  • 8.5 x 6.2 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Ld Prudhoe Champollion Defterdar bay / and the artist drinking coffee' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'South of Nour' (pencil note) [does not refer to sketch]
  • [on mount] 'glazed' (pencil note) [does not refer to sketch]

The sacred Apis bull predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus

The sacred bull Apis predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus:

  • inked pencil sketch on paper
  • loose, adjacent to page 11
  • 37.0 x 22.3 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Germanicus consults the Bull Apis by offering him food' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'the Bull Apis returns an unfavourable answer to Germanicus by refusing to eat out of / his hands' (ink note)

Text on church at Alnwick

Text on church at Alnwick:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 15.7 x 11.5 cm
  • [text]:

'The church at Alnwick a gothic building

once a beautiful and highly adorned

edifice but now from the injuditious

additions and alterations especially

that usual one of taking away

pillars in order to make the pulpit

more generally seen from all corners

of the church thus by throwing two arches

into one thus weak increas

ing the lateral pressure endangering

the roof which perhaps on that

account has been restored in the it was found

ornamental gothic necessary

to restore in the side isles

however the original oak beams remain'

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