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Hearst Museum object titled Plaster cast, accession number 21-42, described as Cast of well kerb; probably from a temple precinct. Subject: preparations by satyrs for a Bacchic revel. Dionysos himself, beardless, and nude, contemplates Seilenos in an advanced stage of drunkenness. The god himself requires the support of an attendant. Vatican Museum. Formatore opposite British School of Art in Rome, up street. Mercatali Brothers put the casts in their bill.
Hearst Museum object titled Statue (reproduction), accession number 21-30, described as Cast of Panisca, a small statue of a female satyr, a rare subject. Italian marble. from an original Italian marble. Villa Albani, Rome. New: both feet, the right hand and a flute, parts of the left hand, very correct restoration. also the horns and ears of the antique head, of which Friederichs-Wolters 1508 questions the pertinence. “This charming little statue presents the rare spectacle of a female Pan, more delicately and nobly conceived, to be sure, than a male goat-legged Pan was ever made.” the Albani copy doubtless reproduces the original size of the work; for it would gain nothing by enlargement. the original was no older that the Alexandrian age. it was doubtless intended for a garden of for a rustic environment. there is a pretty example at Pompeii of a garden enlivened with small satyrs.
Hearst Museum object titled Statuette (reproduction), accession number 21-131, described as Cast of statuette of a satyr from a bronze original discovered at Pergamon, Asia Minor.

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