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XXXII. Extracts (from several Letters) relating to a Statue of Venus, lately found at Rome
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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Mr. Wray informed the Society, that Mr. Mackinlay, in a letter to the Earl of Morton, dated Rome, January 9th, 1761, gives an account, that in September last, a Venus, of most exquisite workmanship, was dug up in the Mons Coelius, near the Clivus Scauri, at Rome. It is in the possession of the Marquis Carnovallia, who gave fifty scudi to the workmen, their full demand, on the half of the value, according to agreement; though it is worth some thousands. It is full six feet high, in the same attitude as the Venus of Medicis, with this difference, that she holds her right hand before her breast and her left supports a light drapery before.
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page 137 note [a] Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xxxvi. cap. 24. § 7.
page 137 note [b] Ib. cap. 2.
page 137 note [c] In Cic. orat. pro M. Scauro.
page 137 note [d] Lib. vii. Epist. 13. apud F. Nardini Rom. Vet. Lib. iii. cap. 7.
page 137 note [e] An Account of Statues, &c, Engl. p. 285. Fr. p. 527.
page 138 note [f] Ib. Engl. p. 176, 7. Fr. p. 280, I.
page 138 note [g] Mr. Wray.
page 138 note [h] Lib. xxxiv cap. 10.
page 138 note [i] P. 14.