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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
Mr. Wray informed the Society, that Mr. Mackinlay, in a letter to the Earl of Morton, dated Rome, January 9th, 1761, gives an account, that in September last, a Venus of most exquisite workmanship, was dug up in the Mons Coelius, near the Clivo Scauri, at Rome. It Is in the possession of the Marquis Carnovallia, who gave fifty Scudi to the workmen, their full demand, on the half of the value, according to agreement; though it is worth some thousands. It is full six feet high, in the same attitude of the Venus de Medicis, with this difference, that the holds her right hand before her breast, and her left supports a light drapery before. On the base, which is of one piece with the statue, and quite entire, is the following inscription.
page 137 note [p] C. Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. xxxvi. cap. 24. § 7.
page 137 note [q] Ib. cap. 2.
page 137 note [r] In Cic. pro M. Scauro Orat.
page 137 note [s] Lib. vii. Epist. 13. apud F. Nardini Rom. Vet. Lib. iii. cap. 7.
page 137 note [t] An Account of Statues, &c. Engl. p. 285. Fr. p. 527.
page 138 note [u] Ib. Engl. p. 176, 7. Fr. p. 280, 1.
page 138 note [x] Mr. Wray.
page 138 note [y] Lib. xxxiv. cap. 10.
page 138 note [z] P. 14.