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The roads Mr. Duncomhe has made ia 

 this country are ia the true ftile of magni- 

 ficence; a moft excellent one, fuperior to 

 any turnpike I have met with in Torkjhire^ 



Adaratim of the fiepbtrds : A noble picture. 

 The attitudes of the Virgin^ the principal 

 Ihepherd and the boy, excellent. The 

 boy is moft happily painted; but the 

 lights feem unnaturally difFufed, flowing 

 from no plain fource. 



Guido. Daughter of Herodias. Very fine. 



Eliz. Siram. Head of Ceres. 



A fmall ftatue of Anioninus ; fine. 



In the yellow bed-^chamber, of the fame di- 



menfions, are 



Old Palma. Scourging of Cbrijl. Ic was painted 

 in competition with fitian^ and crowned. 

 Prodigious fine expreflion, and admirable 

 colours ; the light rather unnatural. 



CaHo Dolci. Martyrdom of St. Andrew ; mid- 

 dling. Not in that artift's glowing and 

 capital manner. 



l^eonardo da Vinci. Head of St. Paul. Incom- 

 parably the fineft work of this great 

 painter I have feen. The expreflion is 

 noble ; the colours fine, and the minutise 

 inimitable : The air of the head is great 

 as Raphael^ the finifliing delicate as 

 Vanderwerf. 



Le Brim. Salutation of the Virgin. The atti- 

 tudes fine, and colouring good. 



Bomitiichino. St. Catherine. Expreflion incom- 

 parably fine : Attitude inimitable. A 

 noble pifturc. 



Guido, 



