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on board and i$ four feet fix inches and 

 three quarters wide by three feet fix inches 

 and three quarters high. It reprefents the 

 infide of a church, an imaginary one, not at 

 all refembling the abbey where thofe princes 

 were married. The perfpedive and the 

 landfcape of the country on each fide are 

 good. On one hand on the fore ground 

 {land the king and the bifhop of Imola who 

 pronounced the nuptial benedidtion. His 

 majefty * is a trift, lean, ungracious figure, 

 with a down-caft look, very exprefiive of his 

 mean temper, and of the little fatisfaftion 

 he had in the match. Oppofite to the bifhop 

 is the queen, f a buxom well-looking dam- 

 fel, with golden hair. By her is a figure, 

 above all proportion with the reft, unlefs 

 intended, as I imagine, for an emblematic 

 perfonage, and defigned from its lofty fta- 

 ture to give an idea of fomething above 



* He is extremely like his profile on a fhilling. 



t Her image preferved in the abbey, among thofe 

 curious but mangled figures of fome of our princes, 

 which were carried at their interments, and now called 

 the ragged regiment, has miuch the fame countenance. 

 A figure in Merli.i's cave was taken from it. In a MS. 

 account of her coronation in the Cottonian library men- 

 tion is made of her fair yellow hair hanging at length 

 upon hsr fhoulders. 



human. 



