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tended to be (hewn : but the print being not bard to be seen, need
not be described.
Writing is again used in this design. In one part of it you see a
person on his bed, and two figures by him. This is /Eneas, who
(as Virgil relates) was advised by his father to apply himself to the
Phrygian gods, to know what he should do to remove the plague,
and being resolved to go, the deities appeared to him, the moon
Lining very bright (which the print represents) here Effigies Sacr^e
Divum Phrygia is written, because otherwise, this incident would
not probably have been thought on, but the group taken to be only
a sick man, and his attendants.
The works of this prodigy of a man ought to be carefully studied
by him who would make himself a matter in expression, more
especially with relation to those passions, and sentiments that have
nothing of savage, and cruel; for his angelic mind was a stranger
to these, as appears by his Slaughter of the Innocents, where, though
he has had recourse to the expedient of making the soldiers naked
to give the more terror, he has not succeeded so well even as
Pietro Testa, who, in a drawing I have of him of that story, has
shewn he was fitter for it than Rafaelle; but you must not expert to
find the true airs of the heads of that great master in prints, not
even in those of Marc Antonio himself. Those are to be found
only in what his own inimitable hand has done, of which there are
many unquestionably right in several collections here in England;
particularly in those admirable ones of the Duke of Devonshire, the
Earl of Pembroke, and the Lord Somers; to whom I take leave
on this, as on all other occasions, to make my humble acknowledg-
ments for the favour of frequently seeing, and considering those
noble, and delicious curiosities. But Hampton-court is the great
school of Rafaelle ! and God be praised, that we have so near us
such an invaluable blessing. May the cartons continue in that
place, and always to be seen; unhurt, and undecayed, so long as
the
tended to be (hewn : but the print being not bard to be seen, need
not be described.
Writing is again used in this design. In one part of it you see a
person on his bed, and two figures by him. This is /Eneas, who
(as Virgil relates) was advised by his father to apply himself to the
Phrygian gods, to know what he should do to remove the plague,
and being resolved to go, the deities appeared to him, the moon
Lining very bright (which the print represents) here Effigies Sacr^e
Divum Phrygia is written, because otherwise, this incident would
not probably have been thought on, but the group taken to be only
a sick man, and his attendants.
The works of this prodigy of a man ought to be carefully studied
by him who would make himself a matter in expression, more
especially with relation to those passions, and sentiments that have
nothing of savage, and cruel; for his angelic mind was a stranger
to these, as appears by his Slaughter of the Innocents, where, though
he has had recourse to the expedient of making the soldiers naked
to give the more terror, he has not succeeded so well even as
Pietro Testa, who, in a drawing I have of him of that story, has
shewn he was fitter for it than Rafaelle; but you must not expert to
find the true airs of the heads of that great master in prints, not
even in those of Marc Antonio himself. Those are to be found
only in what his own inimitable hand has done, of which there are
many unquestionably right in several collections here in England;
particularly in those admirable ones of the Duke of Devonshire, the
Earl of Pembroke, and the Lord Somers; to whom I take leave
on this, as on all other occasions, to make my humble acknowledg-
ments for the favour of frequently seeing, and considering those
noble, and delicious curiosities. But Hampton-court is the great
school of Rafaelle ! and God be praised, that we have so near us
such an invaluable blessing. May the cartons continue in that
place, and always to be seen; unhurt, and undecayed, so long as
the