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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of I. Fraccaroli of Verona's sculpture of David, in the act of slinging the stone at Goliath, set against a dark background: 'The motive of this figure is very spirited, but a little strained; the features have a noble expression. The youthful charact...
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of Fraccaroli's statue of the wounded Achilles, looking down towards his heel, set against a dark background.
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of G. M. Benzoni's marble sculpture of a young girl removing a thorn from a dog's foot: 'The motive of these works is attractive, and they are carefully executed in marble, but they are by no means of sufficient importance to be considered adequate re...
'Godfrey de Bouillon' (plaster); Simonis. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of Simonis' equestrian statue, cast in plaster from the original in bronze, of Godfrey de Bouillon, raising the banner with which he led the Crusaders to the Holy Land: 'In this work the expression of the head is full of life and animation, the action very ...
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of J. Tuerlinckx's sculpture of Giotto as a youth, seated with a drawing tablet, set against a dark background.
Carvings in oak; Geerts. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of two carvings by C. Geerts of Louvain, of religious scenes, made for the stalls of Antwerp Cathedral. A print of this photograph was also shown at the 1852 Royal Society of Arts Photographic Exhibition.
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view, set against a dark background, of C. A. Fraiken's sculpture of a reclining Psyche, her left arm raised above her head.
'Psyche and Cupid' (plaster); Fraikin. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view, set against a dark background, of C. A. Fraiken's sculpture of Psyche, running with Cupid seated on her shoulder: 'The motive of this figure is spirited, the forms are expressed with great tenderness, and the group presents attractions from several p...
'Lion in love' (plaster); Geeffs. Photographer: Owen, Hugh
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Inscription: Signed in the negative at bottom right with monogram 'O. H.' Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Close view of G. Geef's sculpture of a young woman seated with a lion: 'A group, in which the power of beauty over savage nature is allegorically represented by a lion, who is allowing hi...
'The Greek slave' (marble); Powers. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of the statue of a naked chained female figure, by the American sculptor Hiram Powers, set against a dark background: 'In this work a youthful creature of very delicate form is represented in marble. The figure is studied from the life, and exhibits a...