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Identifier: outlinesfromfig00hami (find matches)
Title: Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton; with engraved borders
Year: 1804 (1800s)
Authors: Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803 Kirk, Thomas, 1765?-1797
Subjects: Vases, Greek Vases, Roman Vases, Etruscan Vases -- Private collections -- Hamilton, W., Sir
Publisher: London, W. Miller
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
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( 11 ) PLATE XVII. Whenever a female was represented sitting upon a stool,it was always a mark of dignity among the ancients, andwhen to this was joined the patera, or bowl, held near thehead, it became a sign of some divinity. By these markswe may know, that this painting represents Ceres, withtwo of her initiated priestesses near her: one of themcarries the cystus with the praefericulum. The goddessherself is holding a mirror. In almost all the processions,which were instituted in honour of Ceres, some of themystics, or initiated, walked before her and carried mirrorsfastened to their backs, while others attended with ivorycombs to put her head dress in order, and attend upon her,as the initiated are seen to do in this Plate. Nothing canbe more elegant and graceful than the different attitudes andactions of these three figures, while the whole forms acomposition at once simple and beautiful. PLATE XVIII. The subject of this Plate is unknown. ( 12 ) PLATE XIX. Pliny in his 34thbook,
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