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William R. Valentiner and Paul Wescher, The /. Paul Getty Museum Guidebook, 2nd ed. (Los Angeles, 1956), passim. 62. Richard Payne Knight placed the finest works in the Elgin collection "in the second rank" but put the Apollo, along with the Laocoon, "in the first class of art." See Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons, Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Earl of Elgin ''s Collection of Sculptured Marbles (London, 1816), p. 92. 63. Payne Knight ...