When I first attempted the experiment, I had a strong instinct that the
hair should be gold; but not having the authority for it, I was induced
to try it both brown and grey; neither of these colours, however, was
satisfactory, but having afterwards seen the collection of terra-cottas
in the Louvre, I became convinced that I was right in supposing that
they should be gold. In all these specimens the hair is of an intense
red, which can only have been the ground of gilding, now obliterated. In
the Elgin frieze, in the British Museum, may still be seen the holes
which were drilled to fix on the metallic trappings, which were also, no
doubt, gilt; and were these affixed in our experiment, the effect would
be much more harmonious.