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number, when I faw them, exceeded 800 ; and it 
would be fuperfluous, as the principal of them will 
foon make their appearance in the world by prints 
taken from them, and executed in a manner, which 
(as far as I could judge by the fpecimens fhewn me) 
will in no-wife dilcredit the originals, I fhall there- 
fore only mention two of them, viz, 
I. 
Thefeus with the Minotaur dead, and lying on 
his back at his feet, while feveral Athenian youths 
are embracing the knees, and killing the hand, of 
their deliverer. We may obferve, that the fabulous 
being above-mentioned appears in this piece with the 
intire body of a man, and only the head of a bull, 
which agrees with the manner, in which he is repre- 
fented in an antique fardonyx of Greek fculpture in 
the cabinet at Vienna, and in moH of the works of 
the ancient artiHs. Tho’ I have by me the copy of 
an antique gem, wherein the Minotaur is exhibited 
as Handing in the center of the famous labyrinth, 
and having below the body of a bull as far as to the 
wain, and from thence upwards an human form : 
which reprefentation is further countenanced by Ovid, 
who defcribes that monfter, as 
Semibovemque virum , femivir unique bovem. 
Art. Am. L. ii. v. 1 2, 
II. 
Chiron and Achilles. The latter of thefe is Hand- 
ing, and has a pleblrum in his right hand : the former 
feems to embrace his noble pupil with his left arm, 
and with his right hand to Hrike the tyre, as tcach- 
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