1592951854000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-40453 1747160117348 1711358833000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-40453 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40453 b85530bf-79fb-33e6-b61b-750c2a28d7f2 8 reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference term-37166 adlib-term-37166 feba6d99-fb75-3d35-b009-236d788146f6 laid paper Support Height mm 323 Width mm 203 Leaf Paintings, Drawings and Prints 832/13.f.81 1 accession number 832/13.f.81 40453 priref 40453 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40453 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40453 recto, below sketches brown ink Fig. 1 Fig. 2 the following in brown ink: [i] preceding word crossed through; [ii] two preceding words crossed through recto, below the above brown ink Hamilton says upon the Testimony of Sanchionaton / who wrote from the Books of Toth[?] that the first / Man (which I understand to be the Descendants / of Mizraim & Phut) [deletion] / worshipped a Round stone &c Fig.1 they afterwards / represented an uncouth Head, & Perhaps that / of the Circular form at Rome call'd the Mouth of / Truth may be nothing more than the [?]-Baal / Rotundus Dominus) Figs 2 - It will be needless / to Remark one of the simplest Problems of Geometry / (a Circle) is the Principles[i] figure on which this Face / is Engraved we shall find throughout the works / of the Antients[sic] a great[ii] all their best statues / were form'd on geometrical Principles. / It is said by Diodorus Siculus that Daedalus was / the first who opened the Eyes & Freed the arms / from the Bodies of his statues: so that we find / sculpture cou'd not be arrived at any Great Degree / in Egypt at that Time, & Much Less when the / Israelites left that country & worshipped the Golden / Calf (or O[?]rus) verso brown ink First Principles, or Radicals / Monr Rollin upon the Authority of - / mentions / a Figure of Jupiter Ammon (which the / Learned Bryant Proves to be the same with / Ham the son of Noah) made with clay, before / the Art of cutting stone was known among Men / but Race of Canaan inhabiting Egypt &c / Currupted the Worship of the True God, with one / of the Beings of his Creation, the Sun (see Bryant / Thence Arose the Adoration of a Round stone / as a Resemblance of the Sun's Disk fig. 2 - / see Hamilton's Essay on sculpture. also the / worshiped logs & cylindrical & square / stones under the Names of Jupiter reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax 1916 1912 1916-12 given draughtsman reference agent-45771 adlib-agent-45771 b9e1e92c-edf1-3a4c-a4eb-f5fbaae070a3 Flaxman, John reference term-106299 adlib-term-106299 3926a617-f986-3db0-a8cd-7d8071aa7a46 brown ink reference term-31041 adlib-term-31041 777e9d03-48c7-3aba-a563-03dee309fe95 graphite reference term-97946 adlib-term-97946 388f10ba-526c-32ab-869a-65750eb7faac drawing reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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