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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 Excerpt:...Agate. Vettori, afterwards Jenkins the banker. (This name has beyond all others been made use of by modern artists. Natter confesses that he put it upon a copy of the Venus Vettori, of which be made a Danae.) Tho following gems are also attributed to Aulus:--Cupid holding a butterfly. Jacinth. Tho Hague. Head of Ceres. Sard. Marquis de Dree. Faun's head. Nicolo. Beck. Head of Laocoon. Bibliotheque Royale. Lion seizing a stag. Bed Jasper. Lord Meghan. Head of Maecenas. Sard. Lord Greville. Mercury carrying the infant Bacchus. Jacinth. The Hague. Pan and Olympus. Sard of three layers. Beck. Sacrifice to Venus: three females, a man, and a satyr, per-haps of the lGth century. Axeochcs.--Faun playing the lyre, Cupid with a thyrsus, be-tween them an altar on which is a crescent. Stosch. Head of youthful Hercules. Sard. Cheroffini. Perseus carrying the Medusa's head, has on his buckler this name A3E0X Stosch. Bacchante. Paste. Do Thoms. Hercules, Mercury, Vulcan. Sard. Count Wackerbarth. Beisitalas.--Cupid leaning on a spear, his legs crossed. Agate. Florence. BoExnos.--Philoctetes reclining and driving off the flies from his wounded foot with a wing. Cameo. Milliotti. Caesilax.--Minerva seated. Sardonyx. Constable. Caius or Gaius.--Head of a dog, perhaps of Sirius, full face; very deeply cut in a Siriam Garnet. Marlborough. Easpe calls this a work of Natter's. Silenus seated playing on the double flute. Jacinth. Baron Roger. Bust of a girl, her finger on her lips. Sard. Same collection. Callimori'hqs.--Thalia standing: a mask in one hand, a thyrsus in the other. Sard. Florence. Carpus.--Bacchus and Ariadne on a lioness bound with wreaths. Red Jasper. Florence. Drunken faun dancing. Antique paste. Count de Thoms. Heads of Hercules and Iole. Calcedony. Florence, pe...