Title

The Castellani Collection in the British Museum, 1876. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

The Castellani Collection in the British Museum, 1876. '1. Gold earring...From Metapontum, in Magna Graecia. 2. Gold earring in form of dolphin...3. Gold spiral ornament, perhaps for twining tresses of hair through it...4. Etruscan necklace: the cylinders are composed of amber...5. Marble statue of heroic size, representing the Indian Bacchus...6. Bronze bulla, worn by slave. 7. Terracotta statuette of a comic actor. 8. Articles of toilet, consisting of strigils, or skin-combs, bottle for oil, and box with compartments. 9. Marble head of young Bacchus, or perhaps Ariadne...10. Marble head of Euripides. 11. Bronze Etruscan mirror...12. Bronze cover of a mirror-case...13. A buckle. 14. Marble figure, life size, of a boy...picking a thorn from his foot. 15. Bronze figure of a bull...16. Wooden box, with lid, divided into compartments, which contain rouge...17. Comb made of wood, richly ornamented'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A81_094

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

57,1Mb (4,0Mb) / 12,5in x 17,8in / 3736 x 5345 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy arts country metal statue statues sculpture bronze art British museum color comb marble Greece necklace jewellery jewelry makeup terracotta ceramic location ceramics collection British Museum century Britain earrings earring cosmetics make-up bust identification mirror document newspapers press print artefacts pottery artefact ID mythology roman mythology toiletries artifacts artifact B&W engraved engraving amulet terra cotta Colour Bacchus looking glass 19th century black & white black and white B W Ancient Greece white and black Identity Card Ancient Greek Etruscan nineteenth century The Print Collector Etruria Illustrated London News TGN bulla ILN newspaper Unknown Alessandro Castellani Castellani Alessandro 19th-century Castellani Collection