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thcr, who is bcftowing her benedi£lion on tlie little St. John. 

 This ii commonly known by the name of " 1 lie Virgin of 

 the Palm." Another, called " The Virgin of the Cradle," 

 from the circimiftance of tlie Infant Chrill; being reprefcnted 

 in his cradle ; and two plates of the " Virgin and Child ;" 

 all after Raphael. 



An " Holy Family," after Michael Angelo ; a very rare 

 print of an " Holy Family," after Raphael, wherein St. 

 John is holding a reel, and St. Elizabeth is fpinning ; aii- 

 other " Holy Family," in which the Infant Jel'us is re- 

 ceiving a fifli from Tobit, diilinguiihed by the name of 

 " The Virgin of the Fi(h," and after a very celebrated pic- 

 ture which Raphael painted for the church of the Domini- 

 cans at Naples, and which has fince been in the gallery of 

 the Efcunal ; " The Holy Virgin fitting on the Clouds, 

 with the Infant Chrill." a plate which afterwards fell into 

 the poflTefiion of Agoitino Carrache, who re touched it, and 

 added two fine heads of Cherubs ; a fet (mentioned above) 

 of feventeen plates, coarfcly copied from the woiid-cuts by 

 Albert Durer, of the " Life of the Virgin Mary," and 

 marked with Durer's cypher, except the laft, which has 

 that of Marc Antonio. Thefe are in fniall folio, and very 

 rare. A fet of thirty-fix iniall uprights, from Albert 

 Durer's " Life of Chrill," marked with the ordinary tablet 

 of Marc Antonio. 



A fet of thirty-fix fmall uprights, called " The Life and 

 PafTion of Chrili," copied from Durer, but marked with the 

 tablet of Marc Antonio. A duplicate fet of thefe arc by 

 fonie critics fuppofed to be the production of Wierix, or fomc 

 other of the difciples of Marc Antonio, and this fet bears 

 the cypher of Albert Durer. " Chrill at the Entrance of 

 the Temple, fiirroundcd by his Difciples;'' " St. Mary 

 Magdalen at the Feet of our Saviour ;" " Chrill celebrat- 

 ing the Paffover ;'' "The Defcent from the Croff," in which, 

 with the holy women, is introduced Jofeph of Arlmathea. 

 Three prints, which are known among coUeftors by the 

 title of " The Virgin of Grief." In one the Holy Virgin 

 with extended arms is lamenting over the dead body of Jeius 

 Chrift. In the fecond, ef which we have fpoken more par- 

 ticularly above, and which is alfo calleJ •' The Virgin with the 

 naked Arm/' the holy mother appears much younger than 

 in the firll, and a dead tree is omitted : in other refpeds the 

 two compofitions are alike. And in the third, which is alio 

 a dead Chrill, Jjis head reclines on the lap of the Virgin ; 

 mount Calvary is in the back ground, and three difciples 

 with Nicodemus are prefent. A glorified Chrift with the 

 Holy Virgin, St John the Baptift, St. Paul, and St. Ca- 

 therine, called "The Five Saints;" three of the cartoons, 

 viz. " The Death of Ananias,'' K'ngravcn in coiijunc- 

 tion with Agoftino Veneziano;) " Elymas llruck Blind," 

 and" St. Paul preaching at Athens." Proofs of the latter, 

 before the two figures were placed within the balullrade of 

 the temple of Mars, are extremely rare and valuable. St. Ce- 

 cilia, with the Magdalen and other faints, known by the 

 name of " The Saint Ceciha with the Necklace;" " The 

 Martyrdom of St. Felicitc." A duphcate plate of this 

 fubjeft, in which the right ear of the faint is omitted, is 

 more fcarce and valuable than the former. " St. Catherine 

 refting on her Wheel of Martyrdom." A fet of thirteen, 

 of Jefus Chrift and the twelve apoftles. All thefe are of 

 folio ditnenfions, and after Raphael. 



" The Martyrdom of St. Laurence," a large folio, after 

 Baccio Bandinclli, is a very fine engraving, which obtained 

 Marc Antonio's rcleafe from prifon, and recommended him 

 to the favour of pope Clement VII. '■ St. George and the 

 Dragon," either from a compofition by Msrc Antonio hijn- 

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felf, or after his firft madcr Raibolini. "St. Gregory cele- 

 brating Mafs," from Albert Durer's wood cut, entitled 

 " The Mydcry of the Mafs." 



Siihjeds from Profane Hijlor': and Grteh Mythology — 

 " The Rape of Helen," a grand compofition : " .^naas re- 

 treatinir from the Conflagration of Troy, bearing off Anchi- 

 fcs, and preceded by the young Afcanius ;" " Venus appear- 

 ing to .Aineas in the Difguifc of a Himtrefs;" (an early 

 work of the mafter;) " The Death of Dido;" " The 

 Death of Lucretia," infcribcd in the Greek language, 

 " better to die than live diflionoiired," and the fir!! plate en- 

 graved after Raphael by Marc Antonio ; a fubjefl, by fomc 

 termed " /ilexandcr the Great depoliting the Poems of 

 Homer in the Cofler of Darius," and by others " The 

 Books of the Sybils placed in the Tomb of Numa Pompi- 

 lius." A battle-piece, known ainong coniioifTeurs by the title 

 of " The Battle of the Cutlafles," all after Raphael, and iu 

 folio. 



From the fame mafter he has engraven " The Three An- 

 gles of the Lodge (if Chigi," of v>hicli the fubjefts are, 

 ill. •' Jupiter carefling Cupid j" ad. " Mercury defcending 

 from Olympus," and 3d. " Cupid and the Graces.'' A very 

 grand compofition of " The Judgment of Paris ;" and 

 from Andrea Mantegna, " Mars, Venus and Cupid,'' of 

 which the collector fliould be careful to obtain thoie impref- 

 fions that were taken before the name of Roffi was added 

 as the publifiier. " Apollo leaning againft the Shepherd 

 Hyacinthus, and accompanied by Cupid," is either after his 

 firit mafter Raibohni, or from a defign by Marc Antonio 

 liimfelf. A tablet is here fufpcnded, from a tree, on which 

 is infcribed the date 1506, and A.E. ly is added, which 

 gives the year 14R7 as that of his nativity. 



" The Triumph of Galatea" is a capital print, of which 

 the beft and rarell impreffions arc before any letters, and thofe 

 with the names of 'Van Aelft and Roffi are comparatively 

 worthlefs. 



" Mount ParnalTus" is a large and grand compofition from 

 the celebrated piClure in the Vatican, except that Marc 

 Antonio has very properly fubfiituted a lyre for a violin ; tlie 

 inftrument upon which Apollo is playing in the original pic- 

 ture. It is not improbable tliat Raphael hitnfelf, having 

 difcovered the anathronifm, directed this emendation. 



The above two are after Raphael. A very fine engraving 

 of a Bacchanalian fubjefl, with children bearing bafkets of 

 grapes, and Bacchus feated on a tub, is alio alter Raphael, 

 but was drawn by him from an antique bas-relief ; " Bacchus 

 and Silenus" is by fome critics faid to be after Julio Romano, 

 and " Hercules fmothering Anta-us,'' after Michael Angelo : 

 but others afcribe both thefe con^pofitions to Raphael. 



" The Battle of the Lapithcr," the laft work of Marc 

 Antonio, is of the frieze form, dated 1539, and after Julio 

 Romano. Of " Orpheus" the defiguer is not certainly 

 known. " Pyramus and Thift)e" is after Raibolini. 

 *' Le quos ego," or Neptune appeafing the Tempell which 

 had difperfed the Fleet of jEueas, is Turroundcd by a bor- 

 der, in which are nine fmall compartments, containing ful»- 

 jeits from the TEneid, and is after Raphael. Impreflioiis of 

 this plate, before it was retouched, are rare and very valuable. 

 The difagreeable hardnefs which the abdominal mul les in 

 the figure of Neptune have acquired in the retouching, 

 renders them eafily diftinguifhable. 



The above are all of folio dimenfions. In quarto. Marc 

 Antonio has engraven a fet of twenty amorous ;uid indecent 

 fubjefts after Julio Romano, to accompany the fonnets of 

 Aretin, of " The Loves of the Gods and GoddelFes," which 

 arc, as they certainly ought to be, exceedingly fcarce, and a 

 I'X fet 



