1592951842000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-37936 1753725820926 1753696549000 1753725817264 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-37936 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37936 f1d66990-d5d1-375f-83db-da1a26376e99 8 reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference term-37166 adlib-term-37166 feba6d99-fb75-3d35-b009-236d788146f6 laid paper Support Height mm 213 Width mm 150 Leaf Size Paintings, Drawings and Prints 832/5.f.6 1 accession number 832/5.f.6 37936 priref 37936 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37936 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/37936 upper right brown ink 6 [i] preceding word crossed through in brown ink; [ii] preceding four words crossed through in brown ink; [iii] - preceding word crossed through in brown ink; [iv] preceding two words crossed through in brown ink, the following two words appearing above the line; [*] from this point, grey ink recto brown ink, last 4 lines and 2 words of the 5 in grey ink in the first Chamber on the right hand / of Venus are 2 figures of the Infant Hercules / the same with that of which we have a cast in / England but the right hand in each of these / is stretched out & the left holds a bird / I prefer the restoration with[i] which makes / the child in the act of strangling a Serpent / another Infant Herac / les P:8 / Hall of Niobe / The mother is at one End with her infant daughter / the Father Amphio is at the opposite end, this is a mean / poor figure inferior in Character & workmanship / to the others, & I think of a later age, one of the / figures which is placed for a son of Niobe is confess- / - sed not to belong to them, & they suppose it to / be an Endymion, the Arms & feet of Most of them / are restored & tolerably well, all that is the[ii] / most likely as Pliny says by Scopas much[iii] many / of the figures are of the sublimest Character & / Expression the countenances & attitudes Noble / actions full of the finest[iv] force & Expression, [*] there is / a wonderful roundess & perfection of form in / the limbs & naked parts of the women, the / bodies & limbs of the men particularly, the dead / figure is done with wonderful attention the first line and the next 5 words in grey ink, the remainder brown ink; [i] preceding word crossed through by two lines of brown ink, the following word appears above the line verso grey and brown inks to nature without exaggeration, there / is no affectation of Style, beautiful nature / was chosen by the Artist & copied with so much spirit judgment[sic] & truth of Anatomy / and outlines with a delicasy of execution that / when seen in proper light the naked parts / seem capable of Motion, the draperies are of / fine clothes light beautifully disposed to contrast / the limbs & shew them, as well as to add / dignity to the figures particularly 2 of the / sons who have wrapped their Pallice[i] Chlamydae round / their arms, one stretches his arm out / the other covers his head with it & thus produces / sublimity in the upper part of the figure / some of these figures particularly the dead / son seems to have been worked intirely[sic] / with the Chissel[sic] others have been finished / with a rasp / In another chamber is the beautiful / delicate figure of the Hermaphrodite & c / Chamber of Bronzes / John of Bologna's Mercury going to / rise into the air reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax 1916 1912 1916-12 given draughtsman reference agent-45771 adlib-agent-45771 b9e1e92c-edf1-3a4c-a4eb-f5fbaae070a3 Flaxman, John reference term-106299 adlib-term-106299 3926a617-f986-3db0-a8cd-7d8071aa7a46 brown ink reference term-106659 adlib-term-106659 06ce97c3-af79-33d1-9c7a-9b263af93d6f grey ink reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook

sketchbook pen with brown and grey ink on laid paper reference term-27007 adlib-term-27007 326f020c-e0a2-3e7f-8f96-c7ad94fe8767 handwriting object OBJECT