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shat about the time of Hadrian, the 
Egyptian imitations introduced, form ex- 
ceptions to this rule. | 
No. 5. A Candelabrum. It is not 
equal to the exquisite specimens in the 
Radcliffe library at Oxford. 
No. 7. The triangular base of a can- 
delabrum, on the sides of which three 
Genii with wings, hold each a part of the 
armour of Mars, viz. his helmet, hes 
shield, and his sword. This is usual: in 
a gem of the Florentine Cabinet, (¢. 11. 
pl. 77, n. 4), we have the Genius of Ju- 
piter, with a long sceptre and an eagle, 
&c. | 
No. 7. A vase, with Bacchanalian 
Jjigures. The famous vase of S. Den- 
nis, with the Bacchanalian mysteries, 
will occur to mind. 
No. 8- A Venus, naked to the waist, 
and covered with drapery from thence 
downwards, It should be styled, Venus 
issuing from the Bath, for so Lessing, who 
has especially studied the subject of 
Venuses from the Giustiniant Gallery, i. 
44, 43, 40, and other sources, has de- 
termined these Venuses, half-draped, to 
be. Count Caylus, (Rec. iii. $28) 
’ thinks, a similar Venus at Versaitles 
(engr. Thomassin, Big. Vers. t. 3, and 
Versailles immortaliseé i. p. 400), to be 
merely a pretty woman coming out of 
the bath. Another similar Venus, but 
holding a child in her lap, is given in the 
_ Mus. Florent. ¢. 32; but Lessing doubts 
its antiquity : if ancient, it isjustly called 
a Venus Genitrix, either so represented 
in bonour of accouchemens of the em- 
presses, or in play with Love, or Cupid, 
as we inelegantly call him, with all its 
train of coarse associations and termi- 
nations, Cupido, Libido, &c. The waist 
of this Venus is too long; the outline, in 
parts, stiff. After all, there is still a doubt 
about the propriety of the appellation of 
these half-draped Venuses; Sea-Venuses, 
in La Chausse and Maffei, being half- 
"draped. < 
No. 9. A vase, with double handles, 
springing from swans. The beauty of 
the handles of vases, is worth the notice 
of modern artists. They are often sn- 
premely beautiful, and the Hamilton Col- 
lection is composed of exquisite speci- 
mens, ‘The necks of swans and geese 
were favourite subjects, as the Chenis- 
cus*- shows; liy the way, copied into 
Norman ships ( Bayeux Tupestry). The 
finest handles of a vase known, are those 
* The bird’s neck at the sterns of ancient 
ghips. 
IPP 1 
Remarks on the Townley Statues. 
- of a bull. 
[Sept. 
ona gem in Stosch. They are formed by 
‘two Ledas, embraced by two swans. 
No. 10. A fountain, &c. These were 
very fine and artificial. See Montfaucon, 
Caylus, §c. 
No. 11. A colossal head of Hercules. 
The prominent cheek-bone is conspicu- 
ous. The heads and necks of Hercules 
are fashioned to assimilate a bull, the 
strongest animal in Europe. The young 
Hercules is a very different portrait, (see 
Pierr. grav. Pal. Roy. i. pi. \xxx.) bué 
in the same collection, (i. pl, 82), is ano- 
ther Hercules, which has so much of 
the bull’s head, as to be quite a carica- 
ture, has a very high. double forehead, 
and would pass-for a Silenus, or a Pan. 
The young Hercules has not the ears 
_flattened, as upon the most famous heads 
of Hercules, because he was then un- 
acquainted with the combats of the 
Cestus. Hercules is one of what the 
French call Tétes données, that is, all the 
faces portraits, one after another, and 
therefore the ages should be distinguish- 
ed; for there is no resemblance other- 
wise between them. Heads occur of all 
ages, but they are known by the thick- 
ness of the neck, and the curls over the 
forehead, like those between the horns 
A juvenile Hercules occurs in 
the Bronzi, Ercol, tav. 49, 50, taken for 
a Marcellus, and a virile Hercules, taken 
for a Ptolemy Philadelphus, Ibid. tav: 
661, 62. Hercules deified has no 
nerves nor muscles. The torso of the 
Belvidere Hercules, is the hero a Gods 
the Parnesian statue, is Hercules Hu- 
man.* 
No. 12. Another colossal head of Her- 
cules. The thick bull’s neck is here very 
conspicuous. 
No. 13. A fragment of «a support of 
a Tripod bason, composed of the head and 
neck of alion; on the forehead are the 
horns of a goat. I do not know whether: 
this is a Capricorn; but it is known, 
that the lions of the ancients have some- 
thing ideal, which distinguishes them 
from real lions; and from a horoseope in 
“Stosch, it is possible that this figure may 
refer to a constellation. 
No. 14. Capital of a votive Cippus, 
* Representations of various figures of 
Hercules, occur upon the imperial coins. 
Those of Posthumus abound with them, and 
from Commoedus.to Galerius Maximian, they 
are more frequent than at other periods. It 
may be doubted, whether any thing cémplete 
has been published upon the various Her- 
culeses. i 
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