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\/ These precious remains were not obtained by the \/ Italian Nobles without considerable expence[sic] for the Medici \/ Family appear to have paid 1800 Crowns for the group of \/ boxers when it was first found, one of the figures being \/ headless which sum is more than equal to 2000 \u00a3 value \/ of our money in England at this day and Cardinal \/ Borghese \/ built the front of a Church in recompence[sic] \/ for the beautiful statue of Hermaphrodite lately in the \/ Borghese Villa on the Pincian Hill, we may form some opinion of the sums expended in restoring the \/ works of Antiquity from the following instance, \/ A beautiful and extensive mosaic pavement con \/ =taining two every large circular friezes of figures, \/ the subject of one the battle of the Lapithae[sic] and Centaurs, \/ the other[deleted] subject of the other Tritons & sea monsters, this \/ was brought to Rome by order of Pope Pius 6th laid down \/ and restored in the great Hall of the Vatican at the expence[sic] of 60,000 crowns about the value of 30,000 \u00a3 of our present \/ money in England. \/ Every person desiring to complete a liberal Education \/ receives the rudiments in a School preparatory to \/ finishing his studies in a University - a like proceeding \/ is requisite to educate a painter or sculptor, he com \/ =mences his studies in his native Academy, and afterwards \/ goes to Italy to make himself acquainted with the originals \/ of those casts and prints he has copied in his own Country,"}]}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"acquisition":[{"agents":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-153239","uid":"adlib-agent-153239","uuid":"d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec"},"summary_title":"Murray, Charles Fairfax"}],"date":[{"earliest":1916,"latest":1912,"value":"1916-12"}],"method":{"value":"given"}}],"creation":[{"maker":[{"@link":{"qualifier":"?","role":[{"value":"draughtsman"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-45771","uid":"adlib-agent-45771","uuid":"b9e1e92c-edf1-3a4c-a4eb-f5fbaae070a3"},"summary_title":"Flaxman, John"}],"note":[{"value":"Possibly not Flaxman's hand (see watermark and date of death of artist)."}]}]},"medium":[{"materials":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-32656","uid":"adlib-term-32656","uuid":"71b38be4-d251-39f7-8e2d-a0df2dd6e135"},"summary_title":"ink"}}]}],"name":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-101697","uid":"adlib-term-101697","uuid":"613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022"},"summary_title":"sketchbook"}}],"objects":[{"@link":{"cascade":true,"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"object-41076","uid":"adlib-object-41076","uuid":"93a20393-de53-3900-89a9-8cc330a8c862"},"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"impact":true,"type":"reference","workflow":true},"admin":{"id":"term-101697","uid":"adlib-term-101697","uuid":"613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022"},"summary_title":"sketchbook"}},"summary_title":"sketchbook"}],"owners":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"school_or_style":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-9168","uid":"adlib-term-9168","uuid":"6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f"},"summary_title":"British"}],"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-101697","uid":"adlib-term-101697","uuid":"613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022"},"summary_title":"sketchbook"}},"summary_title":"sketchbook","techniques":[{"description":[{"value":"pen and ink on ruled paper"}],"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-27007","uid":"adlib-term-27007","uuid":"326f020c-e0a2-3e7f-8f96-c7ad94fe8767"},"summary_title":"handwriting"}}],"title":[{"value":"'Introduction', continued"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}