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Like one in the British Museum \/ which is Carv'd in Black Marble \/ such were the First Hermes of the Egyptians an [sic] \/ afterwards the Osiris of the Egyptians[i]  very much Resembled \/ this Figure, as will be Shewn Hereafter. \/ Such says Hamilton) were the square Statues of Jupiter \/ & Neptune that were to be seen at Tegea, & Jricolona \/ in Arcadia, & which were nothing more than stones \/ in the Form of Terms with on which they had \/ Placed a Rounded Stone: which Figured the Head \/ Figure.1."}]},{"description":[{"value":"the following in brown ink: [i] deleted; [ii] three preceding words crossed through"}],"location":"verso","method":"brown ink","transcription":[{"value":"The Egyptians (of Descendants of Mizraim, who \/ was the son of Ham, who was the son of Noah \/ & the Descendants of Japheth the son of Noah \/ amongst whom the Jo[?] of the Gentiles were \/ Divided. Xth l. of Genesis 5. v) seem to Me to \/ have been the First People that Perform'd \/ any sculpture whatever from a Variety of \/ scripture Texts: also the arts of Refining Gold \/ Silver &c Making Money Utensils &c \/ 13.[?] Genesis 2. V- 35. C Genesis 2 V. \/ We may with some Reason suppose that the \/ Chaldeans or Descendants of Mizraim & Phut \/ in the Land of Ur were[i] Made some kind of Images \/ as there is good Reason to beleive[sic] They were the \/ first Idolaters. See the Building of the Tower of \/ Babel: there is also Reason to beleive[sic] the \/ first Representations of the Human Form were made \/ in Clay: But we may[ii] But is natural to think \/ these were Rude Likenesses; & that No Rules \/ were given to Bring the Science to any Degree \/ of Perfection till a later Date of at least two \/ or three centurys after Mizraim Phut & their \/ followers had Possessed themselves of the Land \/ of Egypt & their Children for three or Four \/ Generations afterwards When they began to \/ apply themselves to the Geometry."}]}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"acquisition":[{"agents":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-153239","uid":"adlib-agent-153239","uuid":"d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec"},"summary_title":"Murray, Charles Fairfax"}],"date":[{"earliest":1916,"latest":1912,"value":"1916-12"}],"method":{"value":"given"}}],"creation":[{"maker":[{"@link":{"role":[{"value":"draughtsman"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-45771","uid":"adlib-agent-45771","uuid":"b9e1e92c-edf1-3a4c-a4eb-f5fbaae070a3"},"summary_title":"Flaxman, John"}]}]},"medium":[{"materials":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-106299","uid":"adlib-term-106299","uuid":"3926a617-f986-3db0-a8cd-7d8071aa7a46"},"summary_title":"brown ink"}},{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-31041","uid":"adlib-term-31041","uuid":"777e9d03-48c7-3aba-a563-03dee309fe95"},"summary_title":"graphite"}}]}],"name":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-97946","uid":"adlib-term-97946","uuid":"388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac"},"summary_title":"drawing"}}],"owners":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"school_or_style":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-9168","uid":"adlib-term-9168","uuid":"6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f"},"summary_title":"British"}],"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-97946","uid":"adlib-term-97946","uuid":"388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac"},"summary_title":"drawing"}},"summary_title":"drawing","techniques":[{"description":[{"value":"pen and brown ink with some graphite on laid paper"}],"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-27762","uid":"adlib-term-27762","uuid":"6a4fdfa8-9603-38e3-a5c8-d3311d350bc1"},"summary_title":"drawing (image-making)"}},{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-27007","uid":"adlib-term-27007","uuid":"326f020c-e0a2-3e7f-8f96-c7ad94fe8767"},"summary_title":"handwriting"}}],"title":[{"type":"recto; assigned","value":"Three sylised full-length figure sketches with notes"},{"type":"verso; assigned","value":"Inscription with sketches visible beneath"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}