Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ROME. CARD. ALBANIA COLLECTION. A Casftiarius, with a defence on his head reprefenting iron-pates, croffing one another; or, perhaps, thongs of leather :this is efteemd rare too. One making a will [baffo-relievo }J a reprefentation of thefame perfons head, with a round frame about it, in the famepiece. Perfeus taking Andromeda by the hand, to affift her defcentfrom the rock, the fea-monfter lying dead under; a fine baffo-relievo. There are others of the fame defign in Rome 5 one I remem-b
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . ROME. CARD. ALBANIA COLLECTION. A Casftiarius, with a defence on his head reprefenting iron-pates, croffing one another; or, perhaps, thongs of leather :this is efteemd rare too. One making a will [baffo-relievo }J a reprefentation of thefame perfons head, with a round frame about it, in the famepiece. Perfeus taking Andromeda by the hand, to affift her defcentfrom the rock, the fea-monfter lying dead under; a fine baffo-relievo. There are others of the fame defign in Rome 5 one I remem-ber particularly, at one end of that baffo-relievo, at the Palaz-zo Matthei, already mentiond ; wherein is the Venus newlyfprung out of the fea. Here is likewife a Copia, /Egyptian, a whole-length figure. An urn of oriental alabafter fixd within a large vafe, withfome cement at the bottom. A boy, with a great old mafk on his head, his hands wrapdin the beard.—This was found at Antium. Antilthenes, a whole-length ftatue. Two bufts of Plato. Alexander with a helmet, and armour; fine ornaments onthem. P
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