Greek terra-cotta statuettes : their origin, evolution, and uses / By Marcus B. Huish.

  • Marcus Bourne Huish
Date:
1900
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Credit: Greek terra-cotta statuettes : their origin, evolution, and uses / By Marcus B. Huish. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I derived much assistance from the handsome portfolio upon the Sabouroff Collection by Professor Furtwangler. With re^Tard to the illustrations: H.R.H. the Princess of Wales graciously permitted me to reproduce as a frontispiece a beautiful statuette of Eros which is in her possession ; Dr. A. S. Murray, Keeper of the Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum, was most courteous in furthering the reproduction of whatever 1 required in the Terra-cotta Room at that institution ; Mr. C. H. Smith, the Assistant Keeper, also kindly allowed me to reproduce the cast of a very important statuette in his possession ; Sir T. D. Gibson-Carmichael and Mr. George Salting acceded to my requests to photograph their statuettes now exhibiting at the Victoria and Albert Museum ; and the late Mr. Constantine lonides also offered me the opportunity of selecting any in his fine collection. I have also to thank M. Homolle, the Director of the Prench School at Athens, who at once accorded me per- mission to leproduce illustrations from the Jiulletin dc Cowespoiid- ance Hellcniqjie, as well as M. Jules Comte as regards the Revue dc I Art. Ihe publishers of Profe.s.sor Furtwangler’s volume on the Sabouroff Collection accorded me a like permission. 1 am under obligations to M. Solomon Reinach (as also to his publishers, Messrs. Pointcmoing) for permission to reproduce several of the illustrations in his monumental volume. La Nccropole de Myrina, and for many facts connected with the important excavations which he conducted there ; to Mr. John Murray for placing at my disposal the blocks of the archaic .statuettes in Schliemann’s ^rycemc and Tiryns ; to my friend, M. Fernand Khnopff, who kindly made special notes for me of the collection of terra-cottas in the
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