Statuette of Osiris

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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The presence of this Egyptian fragment reminds us not only of the eighteenth century fashion for the Egyptian style in the Rome of the virtuosi (the English Coffee House at Rome was decorated in the Egyptian style with murals by Piranesi), but also of the Egyptian obelisks which were amongst the most admired antiquities of Rome.