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 Mr. Roscoe to Sir J. E. Smith. 



Allerton, February 27, 1813. 



My ever dear Friend, 



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I have lately done something towards a catalogue 

 of my pictures, drawings, prints, &c., which are be- 

 come much more numerous since you saw them, 

 and which I promise myself great pleasure in sub- 

 mitting at no distant period to your examination 

 and criticism. Amongst the pictures is the portrait 

 of Leo X. with the Cardinals de Rossi and Giulio di 

 Medici, which I have been assured by many per- 

 sons is the celebrated copy of Andrea del Sarto 

 which was sent as the original of Raffaelle to the 

 Duke of Mantua. From Mantua it went to Parma, 

 and was thence transferred with the rest of the col- 

 lection to Capo di Monte near Naples *. You may 

 probably have seen it there in the year 1787? al- 

 though you do not mention it in your Travels ; and 

 when you see it again, will perhaps be able to clear 

 up my conjectures. That the picture was carried off 

 from Capo di Monte several years since is certain; 

 and as I can hear no account of it from any quarter, 

 and have been told by several persons that mine 

 appears to be in every respect a perfect resemblance 

 of the picture of Raffaelle now in the Louvre, I flatter 

 myself with the probability of its being the copy of 

 Andrea, at the sight of which Giulio Romano was 



* This picture was purchased by Mr. Coke, and is now at 

 Holkham. 



