A description of the ivories, ancient & mediaeval, in the South Kensington museum (1872)
South Kensington Museum, Maskell, William, 1814?-1890 · London, Chapman & Hall · leaf 21
Preface. IX or Mexicans/^ to say nothing of the works of the savages of Africa or New Zealand.^^ They are true to nature. Nor is this all. The pre-historic carvings are from the hands of men who were neither beginners nor blunderers in their art. The practised skill of a modern wood en- … graver would scarcely exceed in firmness and decision, nor in evident rapidity of execution, the outline of the animals in the example which is here engraved. Lord Macaulay as our guide in de- describes the appearance of the termining what may be true civili- great cities from without as like the…
South Kensington Museum · Ivories · Art objects
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