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Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 1832 - 1904

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Louis P. di Cesnola, Golgoi, Hagios Photios, 1870, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018I/2
Scope and Contents 132 x 191 mm. Mounted on card and captioned by Cobham. Showing Count Luigi Palma di Cesnola seated beside a semi-colossal statue found at Aghios Photios in 1870. This figure is described thus: '... one of semi-colossal dimensions, the body of which is in an admirable state of preservation; the head, arms, and feet were at first missing, but I had the good fortune to recover them from the different peasants who had carried them off. They are now united [and thus seen in the print], and...
Dates: 1870 - 1879
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