THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 69 



Statuary, Models, etc. 



HEAD OF SAINT CECILIA. By Thorwaldsen. In marble. Presented 

 to James Smithson at Copenhagen by Doctor Brandis, physician to 

 the King of Denmark. 



THE DYING GLADIATOR. Executed by Joseph Gott, an English sculptor. 

 A copy in Carrara marble of this celebrated statue in Rome. De- 

 posited by F. W. Risque. 



APOLLO BELVIDERE. A small copy in marble. 



BUST OF CERES. In porphoritic marble, from Pompeii. 



HEAD OF BACCHANTE. Marble. In high relief. From Pompeii. 



VENUS DE MEDICI. A plaster copy. 



STATUE OF WASHINGTON. By F. Pettrich. 



STATUETTE OF FERDINAND PHILIPPE D'ORLEANS, Due d'Or- 

 LEANS. By A. Barre, Paris, 1842. Inscribed "A I'lnstitut Na- 

 tional des Etats Unis d'Amerique, hommage de I'auteur A. Barre." 



STATUETTE OF ANDREW JACKSON ON HORSEBACK. By Clark 

 Mills. 



STATUETTE OF DANIEL O'CONNELL- Marked "Published by Dau- 

 ton of London, 1834." 



BROKEN HEART. Statue. Reclining figure. 



THE YOUNG HUNTER, SLEEPING CHILD, GIRL FISHING, and 

 other models by F. Pettrich. 



Miscellaneous 



STONE SARCOPHAGUS from Beirut, Syria. Obtained and trans- 

 mitted by Commodore Elliott, U. S. Navy. 

 ALBUM OF SKETCHES op The principal ruins in Athens and views 



OF famous HISTOiaCAIy PLACES IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF GREECE. 



By Miss Elizabeth B. Contaxaki and others. 



The fire of 1865 



On January 24, 1865, the Smithsonian building was visited by 

 a serious fire, which destroyed the greater part of the art collec- 

 tion. A series of cases intended for ethnological specimens had 

 been constructed in the gallery on the second floor, which made 

 it necessary to rearrange the Indian paintings. The day was 

 extremely cold, and with a view to their comfort in hanging the 

 pictures the workmen brought a stove into the room and inad- 

 vertently inserted the pipe in a ventilating flue which opened 

 under the roof. The conflagration which ensued burnt out the 



