Ancient sculpture
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Ancient marbles in Great Britain is a book on ancient sculpture by Adolf Michaelis.
- Let us hear the original testimony of Nollekens, who lived at Rome for nearly ten years, from A.D. 1760, and who was himself actively engaged, now in renovating a small frag- ment of a terra-cotta relief by extensive additions, now in lending an antique 'patina' to a marble figure, which had been very much mended, by steeping it in tobacco juice'*". J. T. Smith puts the following words into his mouth'°° : " I got all the first and the best of my money, by putting antiques together. Hamilton, and I, and Jenkins, generally used to go shares in what we bought; and as I had to match the pieces as well as I could, and clean 'em, I had the best part of the profits. Gavin Hamilton was a good fellow, but as for Jenkins, he followed the trade of supplying the foreign visitors with intaglios and cameos made by his own people, that he kept in a part of the ruins of the Coliseum, fitted up for 'em to work in slyly by themselves. I saw 'em at work though, and Jenkins gave a whole handful of 'em to me to say nothing about the matter to anybody else but myself. Bless your heart! he sold 'em as fast as they made 'em."
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