A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

8 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.by Sir Charles Fellows (1799-1860), in the course of hisjourneys of 1838 and 1840.^In 1846, permission was given by the Porte to the thenBritish Ambassador, Sir Stratford Canning, afterwardsViscount Stratford de Eedcliffe (1786-1880), to removetwelve slabs of the frieze of the Mausoleum from Halicamassos.These sculptures, long known to travellers,^were taken from the walls of the castleof Budrum, andpresented by the Ambassador to the British Museum.Ten years later the influence of Lord Stratford deEedcliffe was exerted to support SirCharles Newton inhis explorations in Asia Minor. Sir Charles Newtonexchanged his position at the British Museum, in 1856,for the post of British Vice-Consul at Mitylene, which heheld till1859, and in that capacity he was able, on behalfof the Trustees, to excavate the sites of the Mausoleum atHalicarnassos, and of the temple of Demeter at Cnidos.He also removed the archaic statues of Branchidae, andcollected several minor pieces of sculpture. The excavationson the site of the Mausoleum added four slabs to theseries presented by Lord Stratford de Eedcliflfe in 1840.One additional slab was purchased in 1865 of the MarcheseSerra, of Genoa.While the excavations of the Mausoleum were inprogress, the Crimean campaign affordedan opportunityto Col. Westmacott to form a collection of sculptures fromKertch and the neighbourhood, illustrating the later stagesof Greek art on the Euxine.In the years 1860-1861, Captain, now General Sir R.Murdoch Smith, E.E., and Commander E. A. Porcher, R.N.,'See p. 45, for a further account of the travels of Fellows.* Antiquities of Ionia, II. (1797), suppl., pi. 2.