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Fig. 43. (*) Fig. 44. (f) Fig. 45. (t) Fig. 46. (§) 



The transition is from hair-tuft 43 to Fig. 46, and from that to the horn of 

 nnicorn-Hke figures, Fig. 47 to 49. 



The GhreeTc Lion-Head. It is very evident from the above groupings of Hon- 

 heads, both full-faced and profile, that it would be a difficult matter to select any one 

 head from the forms of a given art-fauna and proclaim for it representative features. 

 Thorwaldsen, we are informed by his biographer, M. Theile, in modeling the lion- 

 head for the Lucerne monument, carefully studied the antique form and the modern 

 styles derived thence. (Fig. 50.) In another design of the same animal he as 



* Lajard, I. c, pi. 37. 

 f Lajard, I. c, pi. 19. 



\ Flaiidin et Coste, Voyage en Perse, Paris, 1844, pL 69. 



§ An. Mon., Rawluison, 



II Lajard, I. c, pi. 43. 



1 Lajard, I. c, pi. IP. 



*« Inghram-, I. c, II, pi. K8. 



