This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...of Gems, formed in Rome, Athens, Egypt and Constantinople (Mus. Worsl., 1. p. 2 p. xxxviii.), which, it may be observed, included also Sir W. Hamilton's Gems (Visconti, Mus. Pio-Ckm., v1. p. 63 Mil.). Cf. Mus. Worsl., CI. 1v. (PI. 20--31). BROOM HALL (Scotland). In this castle, near Dumfermline, the property of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...of Gems, formed in Rome, Athens, Egypt and Constantinople (Mus. Worsl., 1. p. 2 p. xxxviii.), which, it may be observed, included also Sir W. Hamilton's Gems (Visconti, Mus. Pio-Ckm., v1. p. 63 Mil.). Cf. Mus. Worsl., CI. 1v. (PI. 20--31). BROOM HALL (Scotland). In this castle, near Dumfermline, the property of the Earl of Elg1n, may be seen a number of smaller fragments of reliefs and inscriptions, which have been let into the walls. The celebrated Lord Elgin brought them with him from Athens. Even although, as is Mr A. S. Murray's opinion, they are "of no consequence," still a careful examination is much to be desired on account of their origin. CAMBRIDGE. The principal collection at Cambridge is now located in the basement of the magnificent Fitzwilliam Museum, a smaller number in the staircase well of Trinity College Library. It is much to be wished that the latter should be deposited in the first-mentioned locality, all the more as their present place of preservation is utterly unworthy of them. FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. Conze, Arch. Anzeiger, 1864, pp. 169 ff. Huebner, ibid., 1866, p. 301. The sculptures of this Museum are to be divided into two principal groups. One, formerly in the vestibule of the University Library, comprises the donations of E. I). Clarke (Introd. 67) and of some other amateurs, the objects composing which are derived from the soil of Greece. Cf. Clarke, Greek Marbles brought from the shores of the Euxine, Archipelago and Mediterranean, Cambridge, 1809. (The explanations here given of the several works of art are in most cases so thoroughly mistaken, that pious regard for the honoured author bids one pass them over in silence.) Spiker, Rase durch England, 11. pp. 293-296.--The second portion originates in the will of J...
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