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 published in, speaks, under the article of Leonardo da Vinci, of a print of the taking down from the Cross; but the Lett. Pitt. says it was engraven from Eneas Vico, not from Leonardo.

Two drawings of monsters, mentioned by Lomazzo, consisting of a boy’s head each, but horribly distorted by the misplacing of the features, and the introduction of other members not in Nature to be found there. These two drawings were in the hands of Francesco Borella, a sculptor.

A portrait by Leonardo, of Artus, Maestro di Camera to Francis I. drawn in black lead pencil.

The head of a Cæsar crowned with oak, among a valuable collection of drawings in a thick volume in folio, in the possession of Sig. Pagave.

The proportions of the human body. The original of this is preserved in the possession of Sig. Pagave. At the head and foot of this drawing is to be read the description which begins thus: Tanto apre l’Uomo nelle braccia quanto è la sua altezza, &c. and above all, at the head of the work is the famous Last Supper, which he proposes to his scholars as the rule of the art.

The Circumcision, a large drawing mentioned Lett. Pitt. vol. ii. , as the work of Leonardo, by Nicolo Gabburri, in a letter dated Florence, th Oct., and addressed ''Al Sig. Pietro Mariette. Gabburri says'' Rh