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The Arundel and Pomfret Marbles (p/b)
By Michael Vickers
ISBN: 1854442074
March 2010
This handbook tracks the eventful history of the Arundel and Pomfret Marbles before they came to rest in Oxford
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The largest surviving portion of the first major collection of Classical antiquities in Britain - the sculptures and inscriptions collected in the early 17th century by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel for his London house and garden - is in the Antiquities Department of the Ashmolean Museum. This handbook tracks their eventful journey to their current home.