Jameson, Anna: Companion to the most celebrated private galleries of art in London: containing accurate catalogues, arranged alphabetically, for immediate reference, each preceded by an historical & critical introduction, with a prefactory essay on art, artists, collectors & connoisseurs (London: Saunders and Otley, 1844)

336 LANSDOWNE COLLECTION.
adorned with a bas-relief of four figures, representing a
Bacchanalian offering. Beneath this is a bas-relief of
marble, representing Minerva, habited in the peplos, hold-
ing her helmet with her shield before her, and the owl
upon a stele. In the early Greek style, characterized by
its noble simplicity, and the long straight folds of the
drapery.
The Young Apollo.
Paris.
Diana.
Therme.—A young Bacchus. The workmanship and style
extremely fine. The head-dress, a plaited bandeau, with
a bunch of grapes depending on each side. In Greco-
duro.
Therme.—A Nymph holding a Vase. Also of very good
workmanship.
In the dining-room are nine statues, in niches; they are
of late Roman sculpture, principally portrait statues. A
Bacchus stands in the niche over the sideboard.
CANOVA.
Statue of a Sleeping Female—the pose of which resembles
the antique Hermaphrodite. This was the last work of
Canova, and esteemed one of his finest.
Venus.—A very fine copy of Canova’s Venus, in the Pitti
Palace, at Florence.
RAUCH, of Berlin.
Statue, in marble, of a child holding an alms-dish.

Minerva.—Colossal size. Of the same character and work-
manship as the famous Minerva of Veletri.
Jupiter.—Colossal; and very noble in character.