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Marbles not lost

From Mr Chris Price
The Times
From Mr Chris Price
The Times

Sir, I disagree with Mr Paul Chishick’s assertion (letter, June 16) that the survival of the Parthenon Marbles is due to storage in the British Museum.

The West Frieze of the Parthenon was long thought to have been ruined by time and pollution. It is now amazingly preserved under cover, right down to the veins on the flanks of the horses.

Those in Bloomsbury had their patina scrubbed white in the 1930s, almost certainly to satisfy the cleanliness fetish of the gallery’s generous donor, Joseph Duveen.

CHRISTOPHER PRICE

(Vice-chairman, British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles)

Dulwich, London