Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great BritainStukeley, William
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Itinerarium curiosum (centuria I) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain
Stukeley, William
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
[Sidenote: +Wilton.+]
Having described this road, let us return to _Sorbiodunum_, in order
to pursue the Icening-street: but first give me leave to impart
to the reader somewhat of the pleasure you and I reaped at the
neighbouring Wilton. I shall only at this time give a catalogue of my
lord Pembroke’s most noble collection of ancient marbles, which may
be of use to the curious, in knowing the particulars of that glorious
_Musœum_, or that have a mind to view them.
The BUSTO’S are in number 133. The STATUES 36. The BASSO RELIEVO’S 15.
MISCELLANIES 9.
[Sidenote: TAB. CIII. 2d Vol.]
I. Of the BUSTO’S. 1. Those made with eyes of different matter from
the bust. A Sibyl, the whole cavity of the eyes hollowed: Ariadne,
with agate eyes: A Greek Cupid, with agate eyes: Drusus, Germanicus;
these two are in copper, finely performed, with silver eyes.—2. Learned
persons. Hesiod: Homer, brought from Constantinople, seems by its high
antiquity to have been the first model of the father of the poets:
Sappho, the inimitable in poetry; this is of the ivory marble, the last
perfection of Greek sculpture: Pythagoras: Anacharsis, of an admirable
character: Socrates, by the roguish carver dressed like a Satyr, with
sharp ears: Plato, very ancient, and of a most venerable aspect:
Aristotle: Aristophanes: Apollonius Tyanæus, a most valuable antiquity,
with the right hand and arm: Marcus Modius, an Athenian physician,
of excellent Greek work: Epicurus, a little bust of the great atomic
philosopher: Posidonius, preceptor to Cicero: Sophocles: Aspasia,
who taught Socrates rhetoric: Isocrates: Cato major: Cicero, of
touch-stone: Horace, as some think; a young busto of speckled porphyry;
I am inclined to believe it Ovid: Seneca: Persius the Satyrist: Titus
Livius.—3. Of coloss proportion. Arsinoe mater: Ahenobarbus, the bad
father of the worse Nero: Julia Domna, wife of Severus: Geta when
young, their son.—4. Persons of Greece before the Roman empire: Cecrops
and his wife represented as Janus: Tmolus, a most ancient founder of
a colony: Ganymede, with the Phrygian bonnet, very beautiful: Dido:
Arsinoe filia: Phædra, wife of Theseus: Damas, the learned daughter
of Pythagoras: Olympias, mother of Alexander: Alexander magnus:
Lysimachus: Berenice mater: Berenice filia: Ptolemy, brother to
Cleopatra: Cleopatra, wife to Antipater: Ammonius Alexandrinus, one
of the Olympic victors: Iotape, wife of Antiochus Comagenes king of
Syria.—5. Consular persons: Lucius Junius Brutus, who slew Tarquin:
M. Junius Brutus, who slew Cæsar: P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus:
Scipio Asiaticus: P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica: one of the brothers of
the Horatii: Marcellus: Marius: Sulpicius Rufus: Dolabella: Cneius
Pompeius magnus: Sextus Pompeius.—6. Emperors, Empresses, Cæsars and
Augustæ, beside Geta and Julia Domna already mentioned. Julius Cæsar,
of oriental alabaster, the only original: Augustus: Julia, daughter
to Augustus, incomparably fine: Cajus Cæsar: Lucius Cæsar: Marcellus:
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