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                                                                      	The Seven[t]th (25th) and eighth (26th) k pp 131 14 Palace
                                                                      book
                                                                      The Ninth (27th)  This is the first on which I have drawn
                                                                      but on examining it closely, I find I have much overestima-
                                                                      ted it:  The baskets owe the fine curve they have in my
                                                                      drawing altogether to perspective  being themselves stiff
                                                                      and uniform:  The fruit is roughly cut, and not tenderly
                                                                       not lovingly, with the broken line of the upper t[y]racery[t]
                                                                      capital to which period I should sacribe it.  Its order is
                                                                      	1         of which however the stalks are not
                                                                      undercut, though well suggested.  2 Piri  3 Chucumenia
                                                                      4  Persici  5  Gucke  of this four           6  Moloni
                                                                      the common long melon which is being eaten by the
                                                                      grotesque on the eighth capital of front - bid p 164 above
                                                                      and which occ[vv]urs in my vi[sa]ew of fruit boat - 7  Fici very
                                                                      good, perhaps the best  8 Heuroe, aspirated.
                                                                      The Tenth (28th)  Largitas with money in a dish or salver
                                                                      in right hand and in lap, but no expression while the
                                                                      Largitas on the 7th of facade is pouring out the coin with
                                                                      his hand, and full of life.  The dish is introduced merely
                                                                                   for the change and very change made on these capitals is
                                                                      stupid.
                                                                      	 2.  Inderciph:  a man with sword and helmet, rough
                                                                      cut and utterly vile.
                                                                      	3.  Dischordia discordans;  a very meek, nunlike figure
                                                                      in a veil, the drapery a little better cast and fuller than
                                                                      on the

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