Comprehensive guide to the marble statues, their origin, influences and antecedents, and their arrangement in the Drottningholm Garden where they still reside.  These were largely collected from Italy by King Gustav III in the C18th having been commissioned as copies of genuine Roman antiquities from Italian workshops to satisfy a fashion for classical ornamentation by the north European aristocracy.  Hardback.  170 pages.  127 b&w illustrations plus fold-out garden plan.  Bibliography.  Engish text. Good clean condition.  Cat No 2861