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Bonomi MSS 43.2 (verso)
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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 (continuation), with two sketches of a big-bellied man
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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 (continuation), with two sketches of a big-bellied man:
- pencil note on paper
- loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 43.1
- 11.1 x 18.1 cm
- [text] 'opportunities of delineating its effects / on the contour of the human fabric /
from the constant exposurenature of thethe costume (sic = custom) / X The of those days in the hot climates / of Greece and Egypt being seldom more / than a single piece of cotton or woollen / cloth which was thrown about the body / at the will or caprice of the weareralwaysmost / generally leaving a considerable portion of its / surface to the action of light and air and / thus giving an opportunity to sculptor and painter to / make himself familiar with the configuration of the human body / under all circumstances and this is perhaps what made / them such mastersofin the art of sculpture / and very early ...(?) X and as this beautiful / work ...(?) been it puortrays so faithfully / the effect of his soul(?) indulgence in alcohol /tothistruth of which we are/all … … …(?) We scarcely need the aid / of the wine skin on which the figure is reclining in his / drunken offers(?) to inform us of the imbibe of the above in a salty eye the figurewe need notthe fulsome work of /to …(?) the abdomen scarcely covered scalp the ample beard / sufficiently'
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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