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Literature: See the Parian Phenomenon by Paul Atterbury, Fig. 844, for an illustration of this group.
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A parian group of Venus and Cupid
by Brown, Westhead, Moore & Co., for the ART UNION OF LONDON, after the original sculpture by John Gibson R.A., Venus seated, scantily draped, a bracelet about one arm and a flower in her hand, Cupid, standing, embraces her, above an oval rocky-mound base, impressed marks -- 19¼in. (49cm.) high, circa 1858
by Brown, Westhead, Moore & Co., for the ART UNION OF LONDON, after the original sculpture by John Gibson R.A., Venus seated, scantily draped, a bracelet about one arm and a flower in her hand, Cupid, standing, embraces her, above an oval rocky-mound base, impressed marks -- 19¼in. (49cm.) high, circa 1858