have brought you to Florence, where to be fure there

is nothing worth feeing. Secondly,

1. Vide, quodcunque videndum est.

2. Quodcunque ego non vidi, id tu vide.

The famous Venus of this master, now in the possession of Sir William Hamilton, proves how judiciously Mr. Gray fixed upon bis pencil for the execution of this charming subject. M.

Another.Domenichino.

Medea in a penfive posture, with revenge and maternal affection ftriving in her vifage; her two children at play, sporting with one another before her. On one fide a bust of Jafon, to which they bear fome refemblance.

と

A Statue. ----Michael Angelo.

Agave in the moment the returns to her fenfes; the head of her Son, fallen on the ground from her hand.

Vide Ovid. Met. lib. i. l. 701, &c. M.

Eneas and the Sybil facrificing to Pluto by torch-light in the wood, the affiftants in a fright. The Day beginning to break, fo as dimly to show the mouth of the cavern.

Sigifmonda with the heart of Guifcardo before her. I have feen a small print on this fubject, where the expreffion is admirable, faid to be graved from a picture of Correggia. Afterwards,

3. Quodcunque videris, fcribe & defcribe; memoriæ ne fide.

4. Scribendo nil admirare; & cum pictor non fis, verbis omnia depinge.

5. Tritam viatorum compitam calca, & cum poteris,

defere.

NOT E.

6. Eme,

Afterwards, when he had feen the original in the possession of the late Sir Luke Schaub, he always expreffed the higheft admi ration of it; tho' we fee, by his here giving it to Salvator Rofa, he thought the fubject too horrid to be treated by Correggio; and indeed I believe it is agreed that the capital picture in question is not of his hand. M.

Another.Albano, or the Parmeggiano.

Iphigenia afleep by the fountain-fide, her maids about her; Cymon gazing and laughing.

This fubject has been often treated; once indeed very curiously. by Sir Peter Lely, in the way of portrait, when his facred Majefty Charles the Second reprefented Cymon, and the Dutchess of Cleveland and Mrs. Eleanor Gavin (in as indecent attitudes as his royal tafte could prefcribe) were Iphigenia and her attendants. M.

Another.- -Doménichino, or the Caracci.

Electra with the urn, in which the imagined were her Brother's afhes, lamenting over them; Oreftes fmothering

his concern.

Another.

6, Eme, quodcunque emendum eft; I do not mean pictures, medals, gems, drawings, &c. only; but clothes, ftockings, fhoes, handkerchiefs, little moveables; every thing you may want all your life long but have a care of the customhoufe.

Pray

NOT E.

Another. Correggio.

Ithuriel and Zephon entering the bower of Adam and Eve; they fleeping. The light to proceed from the Angels.

Another.. -Nicholas Pouffin.

Alceftis dying; her children weeping, and hanging upon her robe; the youngest of them, a little boy, crying too, but appearing rather to do fo, because the others are afflicted, than from any fenfe of the reafon of their forrow: her right arm fhould be round this, her left extended towards the reft, as recommending them to her Lord's care; he fainting, and fupported by the attendants.

Salvator Rofa.

Hannibal paffing the Alps; the mountaineers rolling down rocks upon his army; elephants tumbling down the precipices.

Another.- Domenichino.

Arria giving Claudius's order to Pætus, and ftabbing herfelf at the fame time.

N.

Pray prefent my most respectful compliments to Mr. Weddell *. I conclude when the winter is over, and you have feen Rome and Naples, you will ftrike out of the beaten path of English travellers, and fee a little of the country, throw yourselves into the bofom of the Appennine, furvey the horrid lake of Amfanctus (look in Cluver's Italy), catch the breezes on the coast of Taranto and Salerno, expatiate to the very toe of the continent, perhaps ftrike over the Faro of Meffina, and having measured the gigantic columns of Girgenti, and the tremendous caverns of Syracufa, refresh yourselves amidst the fragrant vale of Enna. Oh ! che bel ripofo! Addio.

NOT

LETTER

E S.

N. Pouffin, or Le Sueur.

Virginius murdering his daughter; Appius at a distance. ftarting up from his tribunal; the people amazed, but few of them feeing the action itself."

* William Weddell, Efq; of Newby in Yorkshire.

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Glames-Caftle, Sept. 8, 1765.

Little journey I have been making to Arbroath,

has been the caufe that I did not answer your very obliging letter so soon as I ought to have done. A man of merit, that honours me with his esteem, and has the frankness to tell me fo, doubtless can need no excufes his apology is made, and we are already acquainted, however diftant from each other.

I fear I cannot (as I would wish) do myself the pleafure of waiting on you at Aberdeen, being under an engagement to go to-morrow to Taymouth, and, if the weather will allow it, to the Blair of Athol this will take up four or five days, and at my return the approach of winter will scarce permit me to think of any farther expeditions northwards. My ftay here will, however, be a fortnight or three weeks longer; and if in that time

N от E.

* Profeffor of Moral Philofophy and Logic in the Marifchal College, Aberdeen.