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198 TARQUINIA.
sented. It is a procession of dead, conducted by
genii to their final abode of good or evil. The band
is preceded by a good genius, as may be discovered
from the serpents of eternity, which are twined round
his head, and from the pleasing expression of his
countenance. He bears a lighted torch. He is
followed by a number of souls, and among them,
two, a man and a woman, are distinguished for
uncommon beauty, a beauty which is but little
discernible in the annexed drawing. These, in the
original, are evidently the principal figures in the
group. This very handsome and noble looking
youth is immediately followed by a monstrous fiend,
in whom we recognise the most frightful develope-
ment of the evil genius of Etruria, whose face and
figure had been already familiar to us in scarabei
and vases. The eternal serpents encircled his
head, and his face bad the most frightful negro
exaggeration, with a brutish expression. One
enormous claw was pouncing upon the shoulder of
the unfortunate youth, while the hammer, the
Etruscan badge of the angel of death, was raised
aloft in the other. Behind him was the figure,
lamentably defaced, of a female of surpassing
loveliness, and in her beautiful brow and eye
the most intense anguish was depicted. I shall
never forget her expression of unutterable woe.
To her was attached an infernal guard, similar to
him who had pounced upon the youth, his brows
encircled with the same serpentine fillet, and his
features and expression exaggerated negro and
sented. It is a procession of dead, conducted by
genii to their final abode of good or evil. The band
is preceded by a good genius, as may be discovered
from the serpents of eternity, which are twined round
his head, and from the pleasing expression of his
countenance. He bears a lighted torch. He is
followed by a number of souls, and among them,
two, a man and a woman, are distinguished for
uncommon beauty, a beauty which is but little
discernible in the annexed drawing. These, in the
original, are evidently the principal figures in the
group. This very handsome and noble looking
youth is immediately followed by a monstrous fiend,
in whom we recognise the most frightful develope-
ment of the evil genius of Etruria, whose face and
figure had been already familiar to us in scarabei
and vases. The eternal serpents encircled his
head, and his face bad the most frightful negro
exaggeration, with a brutish expression. One
enormous claw was pouncing upon the shoulder of
the unfortunate youth, while the hammer, the
Etruscan badge of the angel of death, was raised
aloft in the other. Behind him was the figure,
lamentably defaced, of a female of surpassing
loveliness, and in her beautiful brow and eye
the most intense anguish was depicted. I shall
never forget her expression of unutterable woe.
To her was attached an infernal guard, similar to
him who had pounced upon the youth, his brows
encircled with the same serpentine fillet, and his
features and expression exaggerated negro and