[Cnidus. Sheerlegs employed to move the lion sculpture.] Photographer: McCartney, J.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing the crate containing the colossal lion sculpture being shifted with sheerlegs. A note accompanying photograph reads: 'No. 1. Shows the perilous fix into which the case got.' After being dug up from site and crated, the lion was lowered over the cliff fa...
[Cnidus. Sheerlegs employed to move the lion sculpture.] Photographer: McCartney, J.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Similar to preceding. Note accompanying photograph reads: 'No. 2. Shows how we extracted it from those Fauces Candinse.'
Cnidus. View of colossal lion when first discovered. Photographer: McCartney, J.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing Charles Newton standing beside the recently excavated lion sculpture on the clifftop at Cnidus. A note accompanying photograph reads: 'No. 3. Gives a view of the lion after he had been turned over.' The photograph is reproduced as a tinted lithograph in...
Cnidus. View of colossal lion after being raised. Photographer: McCartney, J.
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Genre: Archaeological Photography Showing Charles Thomas Newton and a sapper (Corporal Jenkins) posed beside the recently excavated colossal lion. The photograph is reproduced as a tinted lithograph in C.T. Newton, 'A History of Discoveries at Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidae, being the Re...