1592951854000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-40851 1760552815545 1753697824000 1760552463152 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-40851 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40851 faa10ed4-35f8-36d4-a6dd-4e3177ea49bd 9 reference term-101770 adlib-term-101770 fdd215ec-c870-34b9-9c8f-1a52d081aeaf pamphlet reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference term-106206 adlib-term-106206 da969d02-66a2-3e51-8dde-d1d8613f2ff6 paper Support Height mm 330 Width mm 190 Leaf Paintings, Drawings and Prints 832/12.A.f.2 1 accession number 832/12.A.f.2 40851 priref 40851 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40851 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40851 recto ink Permit me to deviate from the direct scope of my subject a / few moments into short but important arguments on the equal / Injustice & Impolicy[sic] of removing the works of Ancient sculpture / from Italy - we will begin with the Injustice as the most / immediately atrocious, although the consequences of such acts will generally prove they were counselled by folly, / The City of Rome since Constantine removed the seat / of Empire to Constantinople has been burnt seven times, / which in addition to the several calamities of Famine, / Pestilence Sieges Tumults with the natural decay / produced by time itself was reduced to a condition so / dispoiled[sic] and ruinous that only six statues were enu / =merated by a diligent observer Poggi in the beginning / of the 15.th Ceny within the walls the rest had long been buried under the mouldering fragments and rubbish of / Palaces and Temples, once decorations of the Impe / =rial City in her splendor[sic] - from the latter end of / the 15.th Century the Pontiffs, Italian Princes & Nobility / have with great labor and expence[sic] rescued these won / =ders of ancient art from the bowels of the earth, restored / their mutilated forms, placed them in Galleries and / Museums and with a liberality which the real love / of knowledge alone inspires have given the learned / traveller and artist of all conditions and countries / free access to their Treasures - be it known[deleted] remembered / that the ancient Romans despoilers of Greece, have long since quitted this / stage of life - the Despoiled Greeks have also long since been swept / away in the lapse of time so that their successors in name & territory / of the present day a various mixture of barbarous nations neither[deleted] / neither know nor are interested in the possessions or sufferings of / their long past predecessors and changes and destruction of sue- / =ceeding / ages have enveloped the memory of their descendants in / such impenetrable darkness that we are uncertain whether any / race or even particular family now living can fairly claim verso ink the distinction of being their direct representatives - / as they cannot now be restored to their original owners, / who can justly and reasonably plead so good a claim to / their possessions as those whose Intelligence, exertions / and benevolence have rescued these precious remains from their graves and generously given them to the public / for the purpose of promoting knowledge and raising the / intelligence to elevated and worth pursuits? / 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 £ 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 £ 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, 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 ? 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