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Raffaelle Monti, Eve, Volume IV (RCIN 2800003) of "Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided," Photo by Claude-Marie Ferrier (1851), courtesy of the Royal Collection Trust. Description from the Royal Collection Trust: "Photograph of a marble statue depicting Eve after the Fall. The female figure sits unclothed on a rock with her right leg tucked behind her left. Her left arm falls across her torso and rests on her right thigh. She supports herself with her right arm. She looks down towards a child peeping from behind the rock on the right."

"Group in Marble, Theseus and the Amazons." 1851, Joseph Engels, esq., exhibited by H. R. H. Prince Albert, in Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, 1851.: Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue, Volume I. This illustration depicts a marble statue presented by Joseph Engels under the patronage of Prince Albert. The central male figure, Theseus, is muscular, partially draped, and positioned in a dominant stance, gripping one of the female figures. One woman leans backward with her head tilted, her flowing garment draped over her body, while the other is lifted, her legs bent and arms reaching out. 

Lawrence MacDonald, Iconic Statue, Volume IV (RCIN 2800003) of "Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851: Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided," Photo by Claude-Marie Ferrier (1851), courtesy of the Royal Collection Trust. Description from the Royal Collection Trust: "Photograph of a marble statue of a bearded male figure standing, wearing a chiton and sandals. His right leg is placed forward and he rests his left hand on his hip. He places his right hand on stump located beside him."