St. Bruno) has almost equalled Raphael. Then your Gothic inclinations will naturally lead you to the Sainte Chapelle built by St. Louis: in the treasury is preserved one of the noblest gems of the Augustan age. When you take a trip into the country, there is a fine old chapel at Vincennes with admirable painted windows; and at Fontainbleau, the remains of Francis the First's magnificence might give you some pleasure. In your way to Lyons you will take notice of the view over the Saone, from about Tournus and Macon. Fail not to walk a few miles along the banks of the Rhone, down the river. I would certainly make a litle journey to the Grand Chartreuse, up the mountains: at your return out of Italy this will have little effect. At Turin you will visit the Capuchins' convent just without the city, and the Superga at no great distance, for the sake of the views. At Genoa observe the Terreno of the palace Brignoli, as a model of an apartment elegantly disposed in a hot climate. At Parma you will adore the great Madonna and St. Jerom, once at St. Antonio Abbate, but now (I am told) in the Ducal Palace. In the Madonna della Steccata observe the Moses breaking the Tables, a chiaroscuro figure of

the Parmeggiano at too great a height, and ill lighted, but immense. At the Capuchins, the great pieta of Annib. Caracci; in the villa Ducale, the room painted by Carlo Cignani; and the last works of Agostino Caracci at Modena.* I know not what re

* When our author was himself in Italy, he studied with much attention the different manners of the old masters. I find a paper written at the time, in which he has set down several subjects proper for painting, which he had never seen executed, and has affixed the names of different masters to each piece, to show which of their pencils he thought would have been most proper to treat it. As I doubt not but this paper will be an acceptable present to the Reynoldses and Wests of the age, I shall here insert it.

"An Altar-Piece.-Guido.

The top, a Heaven; in the middle. at a distance, the Padre Eterno indistinctly seen, and lost, as it were, in glory. On either hand, Angels of all degrees in attitudes of adoration and wonder. A little lower, and next the eye, supported on the wings of Seraphs, Christ (the principal figure) with an air of calm and serene majesty, his hand extended, as commanding the elements to their several places: near him an Angel of superior rank bearing the golden compasses (that Milton describes); beneath, the Chaos, like a dark and turbulent ocean, only illuminated by the Spirit, who is brooding over it.

A small picture.-Correggio.

Eve newly created, admiring her own shadow in the lake.

The famous Venus of this master, late in the possession of Sir William Hamilton, proves how judiciously Mr. Gray fixed upon his pencil for the execution of this charming subject.

mains now, the flower of the collection is gone to Dresden. Bologna is too vast a

Another.-Domenichino.

Medea in a pensive posture, with revenge and maternal affec tion striving in her visage; her two children at play sporting with one another before her. On one side a bust of Jason, to which they bear some resemblance.

A Statue-Michael Angelo.

Agave in the moment she returns to her senses: the head of her son, fallen on the ground from her hand.

Vide Ovid. Met. lib. iii. l. 701, &c. M.

A picture.-Salvator Rosa.

Eneas and the Sibyl sacrificing to Pluto by torch-light in the wood, the assistants in a fright. The day beginning to break so as dimly to show the mouth of the cavern.

Sigismonda with the heart of Guiscardo before her. I have seen a small print on this subject where the expression is admirable, said to be graved from a picture of Correggio

Afterwards, when he had seen the original in the possession of the late Sir Luke Schaub, he always expressed the highest admiration of it; though we see, by his here giving it to Salvator Rosa, he thought the subject too horrid to be treated by Correggio; and indeed I believe it is agreed that the capital picture in question is not of his hand.

Another.-Albano, or the Parmeggiano.

Iphigenia asleep by the fountain-side, her maids about her; Cymon gazing and laughing.

This subject has been often treated; once indeed very curiously by Sir Peter Lely, in the way of portrait, when his sacred Majesty

subject for me to treat; the palaces and churches are open; you have nothing to do but to see them all. In coming down the Apennine you will see (if the sun shines) all Tuscany before you. And so I have brought you to Florence, where to be sure there is nothing worth seeing. Secondly, 1. Vide, quodcunque videndum est.

Charles the Second represented Cymon, and the duchess of Cleveland and Mrs. Eleanor Gwin (in as indecent attitudes as his royal taste could prescribe) were Iphigenia and her attendants.

Another.-Domenichino, or the Caracci.

Electra with the urn, in which she imagined were her brother's ashes, lamenting over them; Orestes smothering his concern.

Another.-Correggio.

Ithuriel and Zephon entering the bower of Adam and Eve; they sleeping. The light to proceed from the Angels.

Another-Nicholas Poussin.

Alcestis dying; her children weeping, and hanging upon her robe; the youngest of them, a little boy, crying too, but appearing rather to do so, because the others are afflicted, than from any sense of the reason of their sorrow: her right arm should be round this, her left extended towards the rest, as recommending them to her lord's care; he fainting, and supported by the attendants.

Salvator Rosa.

Hannibal passing the Alps; the mountaineers rolling down rocks upon his army; elephants tumbling down the precipices.

2. Quodcunque ego non vidi, id tu vide. 3. Quodcunque videris, scribe et describe; memoriæ ne fide.

4. Scribendo nil admirare; et cum pictor non sis, verbis omnia depinge.

5. Tritam viatorum compitam calca, et cum poteris desere.

6. Eme, quodcunque emendum est; I do not mean pictures, medals, gems, drawings, &c. only; but clothes, stockings, shoes, handkerchiefs, little moveables; every thing you may want all your life long: but have a care of the custom-house.

Pray present my most respectful compliments to Mr. Weddell.* I conclude when the winter is over, and you have seen Rome and Naples, you will strike out of the beaten path of English travellers, and

Another.-Domenichino.

Arria giving Claudius's order to Pætus, and stabbing herself at the same time.

N. Poussin, or Le Sueur.

Virginius murdering his daughter; Appius, at a distance, starting up from his tribunal; the people amazed, but few of them seeing the action itself."

* William Weddell, esq. of Newby in Yorkshire.