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[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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