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An eagle facing right, wings slightly unfurled, head turned and looking back to left, beak slightly open; on a pedestal with a plaque describing how the statue had been dug up in the garden of the Boccapadugli family, near the Baths of Caracalla and was sold to Horace Walpole with the help of Horace Mann, the British Minister in Florence. At Strawberry Hill the eagle was displayed on a marble funerary altar, decorated with similar eagles