Flandin and Botta, together with the originals of a certain portion of them in the Louvre; the engravings in Mr.Layard's first folio work, from plate 68 to 83; those in his second folio work from plate 7 to 44, and from plate 50 to 56; the originals of many of these in the British Museum; several monuments procured for the British Museum by Mr.Loftus; and a series of unpublished drawings by Mr.Boutcher in the same great national collection.
The most obvious characteristic of this period, when we compare it with the preceding one, is the advance which the artists have made in their vegetable forms, and the pre-Raphaelite accuracy which they affect in all the accessories of their representations.

In the bas-reliefs of the first period we have for the most part no backgrounds.

Figures alone occupy the slabs, or figures and buildings.

In some few instances water is represented in a very rude fashion; and once or twice only do we meet with trees, which, when they occur, are of the poorest and strangest character.

(See [PLATE LXVI., Fig.