3-003-868 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Remains (supposed) of an Amazon, 1861. '...fragment of an equestrian figure, supposed by Mr. Newton to be that of an Amazon. The rider is draped in a short tunic and anaxyrides, or trousers - a costume which in Greek vase paintings is usually given to Amazons...this figure is an admirable specimen of the purest and most informed Greek art, fairly entitled to be placed in the same category as the pedimental figures of the Parthenon: "the body of the animal, modified in form by the throwing back of the weight upon the haunches in rearing, exhibits a subtle observation of anatomical structure." [It is one of several] sculptured remains, the result of the excavations conducted by Mr. C. T. Newton, when Vice-Consul at Mitylene, on the site and in the neighbourhood of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, now known by the Turkish name of Budrum, in Asia Minor. These works are of the date of the middle of the fourth century [BCE]...their interest and value to the connoisseur and the student of art cannot be overrated, being superior to that of many of the collections which now fill the spacious avenues of the British Museum'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.