138 Painters in the Reign of Hefiry VIII. 



ing in a golden carr j before him fat For- 

 uine fcattering money, the chariot being 

 loaded with coin, and drawn by four white 

 horfes, but blind, and led by women, 

 whofe names were written beneath. Round 

 the carr were crowds with extended hands 

 catching at the favours of the god. Fame 

 and Fortune attended him, and the procelTion 

 was clofed by Croefus, and MidaSj and other 

 avaritious perfons of note. 



Poverty was an old woman, fitting in a 

 vehicle as fhattered as the other was fu- 

 perb i her garments fqualid, and every em- 

 blem of wretchednefs around her. She was 

 drawn by afTes and oxen, which were guided 

 by Hope, and Diligence, and other emble- 

 matic figures, and attended by mechanics 

 and labourers. The richnefs of the colour- 

 ing, the plumpnefs of the flefli, the gaudy 

 ornaments in the former ; and the ftrong 

 touches and exprefTion in the latter v/ere 

 univerfally admired. It was on the fight of 

 thefe pidures that Zucchero exprefled fuch 

 efteem of this mafter ; he copied them in 

 Indian ink, and thofe drawings came after- 

 wards into the poflefTion of Monf. Crozat. 



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