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Numbers of little Frizes reprefenting Sacrifices, and 
other Ceremonies, of the ancient Pagans ; moft of 
them on black or red Grounds. 
Thefe Pictures fhew, that the Antients underftood 
PerfpeCtive and Landfchape, I mean, the Keeping par- 
ticularly, which I have heard ftrongly diiputed ; but 
no one that has feen thefe Pictures will, I believe, 
make any Doubt of it. 
It would be impollible for me to give you an 
exaCt Defcription of all the Pictures r as there ate fo 
many entire, befides the Bits, and Fragments 
of others. Of fome, the Heads only remain ? 
and of others, Pieces of Figures $ Numbers of fmall 
Landfchapes s Views of Architecture; Flowers and 
Fruit, painted extremely light and elegantly. There 
are even fome grotefque Pictures, fomething in the 
Tafte of India Painting. Moft of the fmall ones 
have been taken out of Compartiments: The 
Guardian {hewed me feveral Places from whence 
they had been taken. They ftill preferve a Beauty 
fuperior to any thing we fee now-a-days: The Co- 
louring, Drawing, and Liberty of Pencil, may vie 
with the Works of any Mafter, even of Raphael 
himfelf. 
There are two Rooms full of them. * — Perhaps 
you will fay I have given you an Account bin of 
very few.-- — In the firft place I muft inform you, 
that no one is admitted without an Order from the 
King's Superintendant ; and that, when one does 
fee them, the Guardian has Orders not to permit 
any Perfon to take any Sketch or Account what- 
ever of the Pictures. My Friend went thither but 
once, 
