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Robert Macpherson
Biga (Statue of Horses and Chariot)
1863 (ca)
Albumen silver print
George Eastman Museum
LL/33155
MacPherson's precise delineation and feeling for chiaroscuro elaborate the majesty of the ancient ruins and provide an
experience of the place, leading the Art Journal to say: "You are struck with surprise at seeing so much that you never saw
before. . . . In the light and shade of these ruins there is a sentiment which, with the stern truth of the photograph, affects the mind more deeply than a qualified essay in painting."
The Art Journal, New Series I, November 1862, 227.
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