prefent: their movements are not connected with

each other, as Lalande afferts.

There is alfo in this room two tables of oriental Table and

Bark of

alabafter, on one of which ftands an antique vafe alabafter. of the fame materials, in the form of a little

bark.

of aftro

nomy, and

The Chamber of Aftronomy and Phyfics Chamber contains many mathematical inftruments, with two globes, which measure more than fix feet in dia- phyfics. meter each.

A very large magnet, and other moveables, proper for this room. The ceiling is painted by Ceiling.

Zucchari.

Zucchari.

Herma

In the Saloon of the Hermaphrodite (fo called Saloon from a ftatue which is draped with a lion's fkin. phrodite.

As there is another at Rome, which rivals this, I shall say no more of it at prefent, than that either I am no judge of its beauties, if it has any, or rather, that we think it has no beauty at all). Amongst other antique ftatues, is a groupe of Antique Drufilla and Caligula; they are well fculptured,

and full of expreffion.

A Satyr, very good.

groupe.

A Satyr.

A Terme, or antique Hermes: the head coiffed Hermes.

like the ftatues of Mercury, but the beard that of a Satyr. He holds a goat under his left arm, under his right a vafe for water: the drapery on the shoulders is in the ruftic taste. Here are a great collection of fine drawings by the most celebrated Fine drawings. mafters. This feries commences with the defigns

of Michael Angelo and Raffaello, fome of whofe drawings and sketches are fo great, as to be deemed inestimable.

A large drawing of Michael Angelo, highly esteemed; it is a reprefentation of the Last Judgment. There is a ridiculous ftory related of this painter and the organist of a chapel, by whofe order this drawing had been made, who afterwards difputing the price, Michael Angelo, threw in this organift's own portrait, and placed him among the damned. The figures in this drawing are about eight inches high, the contours fine, and the compofition ingenious.

A drawing by Andrea Martinia of Judith and Holofernes, &c. A fketch, reprefenting the rape of the Centaurs, by Giordano; it is washed in bifta, and finely done.

One of the Virgin, the Infant Jefus, and St. John; by Andrea del Sarto: besides a vast number of curious drawings, which we had not time to examine.

There is a fingular curiofity here, which is Portable called the Portable Gallery; it is a kind of cabiGallery. net, and contains between three and four hundred

fmall portraits in miniature. That which reprefents the great Cofmo, furnamed the Father of his People, is remarkably well done. It was the Cardinal Leopold of Medicis, who collected these portraits in the last century, and caused this cabinet to attend him, whenever he had occafion

to

to change place, and especially to
and especially to the con-

claves.

Medals.

The Cabinet of Medals, or medal-room, is Cabinet of furnished with the moft rare and valuable collection of medals (as afferted) in all Europe; amongst these are two Othos of bronze. This cabinet is faid to contain thirteen hundred antique gems, amongst which are fome of very fine workmanship, and many others very indifferent; amongst those that are most efteemed, is a head of Vefpafian : there is another, fhewn principally on account of its variety, it reprefents Tiberius and his wife. Here is a fine affemblage of Natural History in all Natural Hiftory. its branches, plants included.

There are fome good pictures in this room. I Pictures. fhall mention but a few (my letter being already almost a quire). A grand sketch, by Pietro da Pietro da Cortona; the fubject, the Donne Sante going to the Sepulchre. It is much to be regretted, that this

great painter left it unfinished. A fine picture upon the subject of Render unto Cafar, &c. by Capucino of Genoa.

Cortona.

Dolci.

A Magdalen, by Carlo Dolci, half length, Carlo highly finished, and in the foftest and sweetest style of colouring imaginable. A picture, representing our Saviour about nine years old, with feveral angels, who bear the inftruments of the paflion this picture is by Albani. The Jefus is Albani. a most amiable and beautiful child, full of grace and dignity.

An

Leonardo

An Adoration of the Shepherds, by Leonardo da Vinci. da Vinci. Though this picture has fuffered, its remains are ftill eftimable.

Paul Veronese.

Four pictures by Paul Veronefe; the Temptation, and three, whofe fubjects are Adam and Eve in Paradise, and their expulfion thence. In one of the former is a blafphemous representation of God the Father in the garden of Eden, dreffed in a green coat.

One of the most curious collections, which belongs to the gallery, is a room filled with the porPainters' traits of the most eminent painters, by themselves, portraits. to the amount of more than two hundred. The most esteemed amongst them, are thofe of Vandyke, Rubens, Rembrandt, Guido, Annibal Carracci, Julio Romano, the great Raffaello, Luc. Giordano, Wanderwerf, Mieris, and fome others, which are not very valuable.

Raffaello's portrait has the countenance of a mere fimpleton; his arched eye-brows, his fresh complexion, joined with a foolish look about the mouth, is a proof that the face is not always the true index of the mind.

Vanderwerf is finely done, and highly finished; he holds in his hand the picture of a woman and two children; the woman is fupposed to represent the science of painting.

Portrait of Uumph, 1646; the design very ingenious; as there are three representations of him, he is feen in the act of painting his own picture;

his face is reflected in a looking-glafs, from which he has tranfmitted it upon the canvas fupported by the ezel. Guido's portrait is well done, and in his best style, which is more than can be faid of thofe of the Carraccis, Dominichino, and others of the Bologna fchool, which want expreffion, colouring, and keeping. Rembrandt, though reckoned good, is not equal to his Turkish Rabbi (whom he resembles), in the Palazzo Durazzo at Genoa.

Arms.

The Saloon of Arms contains a great variety of Saloon of different kinds of armour, amongst which are feveral facks filled with iron fhirts; and, confidering the materials, they are wonderfully flexible. They appear to have been knit with ftrong iron wire, though this cannot have been the method of manufacturing them; as in that cafe the wire must have been in an ardent ftate, to admit of its being thus worked; and if fo, where shall we suppose the knitters could be procured? I never heard nor read of any person capable of fuch a handicraft, unless you choose to except Talus, Spenfer's Iron Man. In fhort, let your own imagination work out, if you will, how fuch fhirts were made; fuffice if for the prefent, that they appear evidently

to have been worn.

A fhield of iron, on which is a bas relief, tole- Bas relief, rably well executed; it represents Cæfar, to whom

is presented the head of Pompey: Cæfar turns away his face with great expreffion of horror.

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