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near her a club. Tefpflchore is playing on the cither a; 

 Erato on the telludo, and has a cupid with her ; at her 

 feet lie a bow and quiver. Polyhymnia holds up her 

 robe in her hand; the pen in the hand of Calliope is 

 ■ certainly the addition of a modern artift. Urania, in 

 a pennve attitude, has a fphere in one hand, and her 

 head is fupported by the other. Thalia has the comic 

 mails: and the tibia. However, we can as little truft to 

 thefe attributes and fupplementary heads as to others. 

 . The little heads are unqueftionably modern, fculptur- 

 ed with the true french delicateffe, and the attributes 

 adjufied according to old reftored bas-reliefs. 



Of all the fingle figures the Calliope at Wilton-houfe 

 is without doubt the moft beautiful. But the fo much 

 famed Urania in the fame collection, a fitting perfon 

 with her head reclining on her hand, is no mufe, but 

 rather a Pro vine ia victa. 



Perfectly unreftored and genuine is the Terphxhore, 

 with the lyre, among the Oxford monuments. A very 

 fine Euterpe at Wilton-houfe is held to be the work of 

 Cleomenes. For the fake of brevity, we here pafs oyer 

 the others which appear in Perrier, Epifcopius, Maf- 

 fei, de Rubeis, Cavaceppi, and the* collection ofilatues 

 at Venice. 



The befl delignation of the Mufes and their attributes 

 is given in the painting found in Herculaneum in 

 water-colours. They are to be feen in the eleventh 

 volume of Pitture Hercolane, towards the besinmnor 

 Apollo is Utting in a leaning poflure. Clio has a crown 

 of laurels, a roll in her hand, and near her a veiTel with 

 other rolls. Thalia is Handing, has the mafk and the 

 pedum. Melpomene is itanding, with the club and the 



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