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The 20th. With animals heads Daged. By far the loveliest
of this series: Its breast leaves are wavy and varied
and studied from nature: Under the fox is a flower
of heavy blossomed grass; esquisitely finished, and
under the weasel, the stem of the leaf is twisted and
its edge laid most strangely and lightly over the flat
fill[e]t something as opp: Conf Palace p 18.
The 23rd. The great leaves here are more elaborate and heavy
and more classical i.e. less natural: The heads are fine;
the best of the series: but evidently modern. It is a
restored capital - I cannot say of what time - may be
exceedingly recent. Its heads are the following:-
1. Latini: in a Beatrice Cenci cap, and loose hair
2. Tartari: in a cap with knob at top and loose hair.
3. Turchi: in the pointed cap worn by Arion.
4. Ongari: in conical cap: a fine head.
5. Greci: Injured.
6. Goti, a little heavy and German; in Arion’s cap with its
point truncated.
7. Egicii
8. Persici
The breast leaves are here very light and delicate - but
poor - and alike all round quite a new type peculiar
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