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experience is often inadvertently done by the fair visitor, 

 to the discomfiture of the poor artist. 



The Terracottas which this room contains are often 

 passed by the generality of visitors with but very slight 

 notice : yet upon minute examination they will be found 

 to be highly interesting, affording as they do, evidence 

 of the great superiority of the ancients in this style of 

 art. In many of the Bas-reliefs, especially Nos. 45 and 

 46, we see, although in so small a scale, the power and 

 spirit of expression, a natural grace and ease of attitude, 

 and beautiful execution. See 



No. 12. Representing a Female apparently over- 

 whelmed with sorrow, in which her attendants seem to 

 participate. 



Second Room. 



No. 2, A Funeral Urn, on which are represented 

 Pedestrian and Equestrian Combatants, carved with 

 great spirit. 



No. 4. A Statue of a Female, used by the ancients 

 as a column : it is beautiful. 

 No. 5. A Candelabrum. 



Nos. 7 and 9. Vases surrounded by Bacchanalian 

 Figures in low relief. 



No. 8. Statue of Venus ; found in the Maritime 

 Baths of Claudius ; this is most exquisitely beautiful : 

 the fleshy look of the breast and right arm, as well as 

 the beauty of the expression, and the natural and correct 

 execution of the complicated folds of the drapery, must 

 qualify the expression we have used. 



Nos. 19 and 20. Colossal Head of Hercules. 



Third Room. 



No. 4. A bas-relief representing the Indian Bacchus 

 received as a guest by Icarus ; at the outer court of his 

 dwelling, which affords a good representation of the 

 external portions of a Greek dwelling. 



No. 15. A bas-relief of the Centaur Nessus, with 

 Deianira in his arms ; beautifully natural : and the 

 whole is executed with great spirit. 



