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Excerpt from Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum, Vol. 10: With Engravings
The hair is parted in front, and on each side of the head falls down upon the shoulders in rich luxuriant curls. This head has been 'engraved in the Specimens of Ancient sculpture by the Society of Dilettanti, vol. Ii. Pl. 1 7. Mr. Knight in his de scription hesitates in assigning it to Atys, Adonis, or Paris, but speaks in warm terms of its beauty and excellence as a work of art. Its admirable and delicate softness both of design and execution, the purity of the taste, and the finished skill and breadth of the details, would induce us to assign it to the time of Praxiteles, or the school which he established. The head only is antique; the neck, shoulders, and a of the upper part of the cap are modern. It may possibly have been part of a statue, but, if so, was probably intended to have been placed in some niche, where little more than the front could have been seen, as the back part both of the hair and cap are left in a rude and unfinished condition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
