Thursday, July 29, 2010

George Goodwin Kilburne - Admiring Demeter ...




[A Mother and Child admiring the Statue of Demeter in the British Museum]
signed 'G. G. Kilburne'
pencil and watercolour
6 x 9"

Shows the Masoleum room between 1869 and 1884. The room (now Room 5) contained Greek marbles excavated by Sir Charles Newton at Bodrum, the site of ancient Halicarnassus.

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