XX. — On the progress of Sculpture to the time 

 of Phidias, with Remarks on the charges 

 against him. By Edward Holme, M.D., 

 F.L.S., &c. 



(Read April 11th, 1848.) 



COMMUNICATED BY DE. FLEMING. 



The following Paper was originally read by the 

 late Dr. Edward Holme, at a meeting of the 

 society, on the 16th day of November, 1816, and 

 appears to have been intended as the first of a 

 series of Essays on Ancient Art. It was with- 

 drawn from publication at the time, probably as 

 incomplete, and is now printed from the rough 

 Notes in the handwriting of Dr. Holme, for which 

 the council are indebted to his executors, S. D. 

 Darbishire, Joseph Ewart, and S. Kay, Jun., 

 Esqrs., who discovered them amongst his papers. 

 Though wanting the advantage which the final 

 revision of its Author might have conferred, this 

 Essay will, the council feel assured, be regarded 

 with peculiar interest, as, independently of its 

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