A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c12.s1.52

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¹ The Sultānganj discoveries are described in *J. A. S. B.*, vol. xxxiii (1864), pp. 361 seqq. with lithograph: Cunningham, *A. S. Rep.*, vol. x, p. 127; xv, p. 126: Anderson, *Catalogue, I. M.*, Part II, p. 481. In the draft *Illustrated Handbook* of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery the statue is erroneously described as 'bronze' and is wrongly dated. The modern *cire perdue* process of casting bronze over a core made of modelling clay mixed with pounded brick and plaster of Paris is described, ibid., p. 85. The Sultānganj process seems to have been essentially the same, with the addition of a second layer of copper. I am indebted to Mr. Whitworth Wallis, Curator of the Birmingham Museum, for a photograph of the colossus and a copy of the *Illustrated Handbook*.