Add MS 33959

Vol. II. (ff. 53). ETRUSCAN ANTIQUITIES, mostly in bronze. The majority of these were discovered at Perugia in 1812, and the originals are now at Munich, partly in the Glyptothek and partly in the Antiquarium. Engravings of many of them are given by Inghirami, Monumenti Etruschi, Ser. iii., and C. O. Müller, Denkmale der alien Kunst, plate lix. The drawings by Dodwell are in monotint, some of the original size and sonic reduced. i.-xii. Bronze plates, intended to be attached to chariots, etc. The designs consist of figures of men and animals, such as a boar-hunt (Inghirami, p. xxiv. 2, xxv., Müller no. 297), Gorgon holding two lions by the throat (Inghirami xxiii., Müller 298), deer attacked by lions (Inghirami xxxiii. 2), sphinxes, lions, boars, hippocampi, etc. (Inghirami xxiv. 1, xxvii., xxxii., xxxiii. 1, xxxiv.), an ox-headed man (ib. xxxv.), and woman holding lekyth, with part of another figure in a similar panel above (ib. xvi. 2). ff. 1-18. xiii. Two faces of a triangular candelabrum or small altar, with representations of Hercules wearing a lion's skin and of the so-called Juno Sospita wearing a goat's skin (Inghirami vii., viii., Müller 299). f. 19. xiv.-xvi. Figures of lions, a hippocampus, and a Nereid or mermaid, in the round, intended for ornaments or handles (Inghirami xxviii. 5). ff. 20-22. xvii.-xix. Lions, sphinxes, etc., intended for ornaments to the ends of chariot-poles or other beams (Ingliirami xxii., xxvi., cf. xxvii. 3). ff. 23-25. xx. Head of griffin, intended as fastening for lid of a vase. f. 26. xxi.-xxvi. Handles, pedestals, and ornaments. ff. 27-32. xxvii. A bronze wheel. f. 33. xxviii. Anguiped giant on pedestal of a lion's foot, intended as foot of a cista, from Perugia. f. 34. xxix. Statuette of orator, on pedestal, from Chiusi. f. 35. xxx. Small female figure, from Populonia. f. 36. xxxi. Female figure, intended as handle to a mirror; here restored as supporting a dish. f. 37. xxxii. Two statuettes of warriors, from Florence. f. 38. xxxiii., xxxiv. Female heads and figures, two being winged Fates (Inghirami xv. 4). ff. 39, 40. xxxv. Recumbent figure, perhaps a Marsyas, from Etruria. f. 41. xxxvi. Figure of boy in attitude of preparation to dive or jump. f. 42. xxxvii. Handle and foot of a cista, from Palestrina. f. 43. xxxviii. Ornaments, utensils, rings, etc., from Rome, Florence, Palestrina, and Narni. f. 44. xxxix., xl. Helmets and armour, from Peru-ia, Naples, and Rome. ff. 45, 46. xli. Vases, from Perugia and Tarquinii. f. 47. xlii. Miscellaneous ornaments, candelabrum, etc. f. 48. xliii. Three ivory spoons, found in tombs near Canino. f. 49. xliv. Terra-cotta heads and mask, from Ostia, Faesulac, and Rome. f. 50. xlv.-xlvii. Black terra-cotta vases from Otricoli, Chiusi, and Rome. ff. 51-53.

Etruscan Antiquities: Drawings of, by E. Dodwell, circ.: 1825-1827.