Sulphurs

Introduction
Hypogaei by James Byres
Funeral of Maria Clementina
Prince Charles Edward Stuart
Paintings
Ganymede
St Cecilia
James Byres of Tonley
Portrait of James Byres
Dancing Cherubs
Hypogaei by James Byres
Piranesi plate dedicated to Byres
Head of child
Capriccio
Designs for King's College by James Byres
James Irvine of Drum
Sulphurs
Vases
Museo Pio Clementino
Statuette of Osiris
Melancholy remembrances
Acknowledgements

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These sulphur casts of Roman gems came to the University from the Irvine family. A similar collection, donated by the antiquarian and painter Colin Morison (1732-1810), formed part of the eighteenth-century museum of antiquities at King's College, Aberdeen.