[M.173L]                                                              [M.173]	Ducal palace S of C	173
                                                                      
                                                                      		is grossly inferior to the work behind - and strangest of all
                                                                      		the head, no 7 being cracked through the nose and cheek:
                                                                      		the eye on the inside is deep drilled in the eye ball: but the
                                                                      		outside - left - eye - is smooth eyeballed. or else filled up with
                                                                      		a substance which hardly yields to the knife, but feels like
                                                                      		stone.  Also the {right} cheek of this head is aell marked &
                                                                      		felt - that on the left is comparatively rude & shallow & feebly
                                                                      		scratched, and the extremities of the curls of the hair are
                                                                      		also much less complete in the turn, and less sharply cut on the
                                                                      		left side.  Yet the cracked  parts seem to correspond exactly.
                                                                      		1. A common bearded head:  very coarsely cut
                                                                      		2. In coarse neck armour and ugly round helmet or cap
                                                                      		3. A bearded head with long pointed ears.
                                                                      		4. Hair on the forehead curled in spirals all aong, just
                                                                      		like the moulding on the Apse of Murano.  The nose sunk in
                                                                      		between cheeks. Very ugly.
                                                                      		5th. a common head - blunt nosed & every way bad.
                                                                      		6th.  Utterly different in conception from all the rest.  It must
                                                                      		I think be a portrait: it is thin - thoughtful - full of
                                                                      		Dignity - pure Italian  It wears a cap with two winged lions
                                                                      		thereon, xx (very small) and is thoroughly Dantesque & fine, though
                                                                      		its chiselling same in manner as that of the others only more
                                                                      		careful.
                                                                      		7. Bearded head, the cracked one.  8.  a negro detestably ugly
                                                                      		only better chiselled than those of upper arcade.

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