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XXVII. Observations on the Barberini Vase. By John Glen King, D. D. Addressed to the Earl of Leicester, President of the Society of Antiquaries.

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John Glen King
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I take the liberty to send your Lordship the thoughts which have occurred to me on seeing the famous Roman urn, called the Barberini Vase, in the collection of the late duchess dowager of Portland. I should have had the honour of sending this account many months ago, if I could have procured a tolerable drawing of it; or the engraving made from it by Bartolozzi, after the celebrated Cypriani's drawing. Indeed, two such artists as those only could do justice to so admirable an original.

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Archaeologia , Volume 8 , 1787 , pp. 307 - 315
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1787

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page 307 note [a] Antiq. Expliquée, Tom. V. pl. 6.

page 308 note [b] M. Falconet, who was engaged by the present empress of Russia to make the equestrian statue the erected to Peter the Great. The translation here mentioned was printed for Monnier, at the Hague, 1773, in two vols. 8vo. but is extremely scarce. I believe the author took back most of the copies himself, intending to give a new and more correct edition.

page 309 note [c] Histoire Naturelle de Pline, Liv. XXXVI. p. 14. n. 16.

page 311 note [d] Ælius Lampridius. Hist. August. Scriptor.

page 313 note [e] Lampridius.

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