[M.169L]                                                              [M.169]	Ducal palace S of C.	169
                                                                      
                                                                      		training - without one touch of caricature - it is most delicately
                                                                      		at most intensely True.
                                                                      		6 q A woman with a rope ending in a tassel in her lap and
Note:  cubuvit here - combuvit I think on the other.                  		her arms round two branches of trees, now broken
                                                                      		7.  Vanitas.  She has a convex mirror in her lap, and is
                                                                      		smiling in it complacently Her robe is embroidered with
                                                                      		square roses of the size b p 30 fig 3.  but cut each
                                                                      		with a cross incised and five drill holes, as shown at a.
                                                                      		Fig 4 {is} real size - roses forming her crown.  This also fine
                                                                      		in expression.
                                                                      		8.  Invidia {me comcuburit}.  Nearly as fine & especially in the gentleness with
                                                                      		which it is touched - no cariacature.  She points at something
                                                                      		with her finger, has a serpent about her head wreathed
                                                                      		like the hanging cup, another about her waist with its
                                                                      		sting out, its head real size, at p 31 l the eyes are {flat shallow} drill
                                                                      		holes which of course in the sun take the expression given
                                                                      		She has a fine sharp winged dragon on lap:
                                                                      The Eleventh:  The great Bird one.
                                                                      		1 and 2 as seen in Dag. they are clawed birds and
                                                                      		are a little stiff, have long bills.  3 is broken away
                                                                      		4.  Short billed, standing almost erect, its tail plumy
                                                                      		sweeping the ground or rather the top of the leaves, most
                                                                      		gracefully.

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