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 colours noble; but the general 

 brilliancy gone. The figure of 

 a woman to the right mod un- 

 meaning. 

 Ann. Carrache. The family of the Car- 

 rach\ reprefented in a butcher's 

 ihop, and thofe celebrated paint- 

 ers in butchers dreiTes. Anni' 

 bal is weighing fome meat to a 

 ^ivifs of the Cardinal o{ Bolognas 

 guard. Augiifilne is fhaking a 

 nail, and trying if it holds faft, 

 that he may hang on it a leg of 

 mutton, which he holds in his 

 left hand. Gobbo is lifting up a 

 calf to hang it on a beam, and 

 Ludovico lloops down killing a 

 fheep. The mother of them is re- 

 preiented as a fervant maid that 

 comiCs to buy fome meat. The 

 likenelTes are traditionally faid 

 to be wonderful. — This, furely, 

 j& the mod: ftriking inllance of 

 an odd and grotefque tafte ; to 

 tranfmit ones felf to poilerity in 

 the mod odious of common cha- 

 radlers. Alexander was follici- 

 icus to have the beauty of his 



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