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to his Disciples after his resurrection, by Jordeans, of Antwerp; Moses striking the Rock, by the same Artist; the Marquis of Granby relieving the sick Soldier, by Penny; a fine Claude; very fine and correct copies of Raphael's celebrated Cartoons (seven in number) presented to the University by the late Duke of Marlborough, which are at present on the north side of the gallery, where they stand in the following order;-Christ's Charge to his Apostles; the Miraculous Draught of Fishes; the Death of Ananias; Paul preaching at Athens; Elymas, the Sorcerer, struck blind; the Sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas, and Peter and John healing the Cripples at the Beautiful Gate. In the centre of the east side is a very fine statue of William Earl of Pembroke, in brass, designed by Rubens, and cast by Hubert le Soeur, who did the equestrian statue of Charles I., at Charing Cross. In different parts of the gallery are placed a few busts, some of which are much admired. The cases contain books belonging to the Bodleian Library.—The north and south sides are 129 feet long, and 241 broad; the east side 158 feet by 243.

Pictures, &c. on the Staircase.

A Bust of Sir Thomas Bodley Cardinal Langton (Archbi shop of Canterbury) producing to the Barons, and the rest of the Assembly, at St. Edmund's Bury, the Charter granted by Henry 1. on which is founded the

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Liberty of the British Con-
stitution

Sir Martin Frobisher
Isaac Casaubon
Meric Casaubon
Dr. Coney

A South Prospect of Oxford
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THE ARUNDEL MARBLES

are on the north-side of the square of the Schools; these were given to the University by the Duke of Norfolk, then Lord Howard, in 1677. Of these marbles we have been favoured with the following account, given by the late Rev. John Price, many years head Librarian of the Bodleian Library, to Mr. Cowderoy, who shews the Picture Gallery and Library :

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"Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surry, Lord Marshal of England, sent William Petty into Asia, to search for some curious monuments of antiquity, where he bought those which we call the Arundel Marbles, of a Turk, who had taken them from a learned man, sent by the famous Peiresc into Greece and Asia, upon the same design. These precious Marbles were placed in the Earl's house and gardens, upon the banks of the Thames. Selden wrote a book of what they contained in 1629, which has been a great help to D. Petau, Saumaise, Vossius, and several learned men, in their works. These ancient Marbles discover several things, both concerning the history and chronology of the Greeks. Amongst the epochas, marked in them, there are three very particular, viz. the

9th, which they reckoned from the arrival of the first ship out of Egypt into Greece, and 1512 years before the birth of Christ; the 12th, which they counted from the time that Ceres came to Athens, in Erechtheus's reign; and the 40th, from the day that comedies began to be acted at Athens, according to Susarion's invention. Another of these Marbles shews what gave occasion to the Fable of the Centaurs, viz. hunting the wild Bull, first invented by the Thessalians: they also furnish us with several other curious observations, as that the custom of burning bodies was laid aside in Macrobius's time; and that none but emperors, yestals, and men of special note, were suffered to have their tombs within the walls of Rome."

Here are also the antique Marbles given by the executors of the learned Selden. Opposite the entrance to the Bodleian is the Logic and Moral Philosophy School, which contains the marbles, statues, busts, &c. presented to the University in 1755, by the Countess Dowager of Pomfret, of which the following is a list :POMFRET STATUES.

1 A Grecian Lady 2 Archimedes

3 A Roman Emperor
4 Minerva

5 A Roman Emperor
6 Cicero in the proper habit
7 A Grecian Lady
8 A Column from the Tem-
ple of Apollo at Delphos,
with an Apollo placed at
the top

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9 Sabina

10 A Venus de Medicis
11 A square Roman Altar
12 Terminus of Pan
13 Minerva

14 A Roman Altar
15 A Statue of a Woman
16 A Venus
17 A Roman Altar
18 A Statue of Clio sitting
19 A Roman Altar

20 Statue of a young Dacian 21 A Roman Altar 22 Antinous

23 A Grecian Lady 24 Jupiter and Leda 25 An antique Capital 26 Acircular Pedestal,finely ornamented with heads and festoons of fruit 27 Scipio Africanus, or Demosthenes

28 A Woman, clothed 29 A trunk of a Woman 30 A Boy with his finger in his mouth

31 Jupiter sitting 32 A Woman

33 The trunk of a Woman 34 Germanicus's Tomb 35 Two Capitals with beasts' heads

36 An Egyptian Chair 37 A Stone carved with a claw at the end

38 A Roman Consul

39 A Woman

40 Flora

41 Hercules

42 Diana

43 A Hymen leaning on his torch

44 A Venus

45 A circular Altar
46 Melpomene sitting
47 A Roman Altar
48 A Grecian Lady
49 A Roman Altar
50 Camilla

51 A Grecian Philosopher 52 A Roman Altar

53 Caius Marius 54 A Bacchus

55 A Roman Altar

56 Julia

57 A Roman Fathom

58 A Sphynx

59 Ditto

60 A Sacrifice

61 A basso relievo of a Da

cian's Sacrifice 62 A part of a Sacrifice

63 A naked trunk of an Hermaphrodite

64 Basso relievo

65 Basso relievo of a Shepherd

66 A Bacchanalian
67 A Woman's Head
68 The trunk of a Man
69 A trunk of a Woman
70 A Consular Trunk
71 Trunk of a Woman
72 Bust of a Roman
73 The Head of a Man
74 A trunk of Venus
75 An old Man's Head
76 A Man's Head

77 Part of a Head and Neck
78 An old Man's Head
79 A statue of a young Satyr
80 A trunk of a Man
81 Beasts devouring men
82 A trunk of a woman
83 Part of a Man's Foot
84 A naked Trunk of a Man
85 Part of two Masks
86 A Lion

87 An Alabaster Urn 88 A Sarcophagus

89 Statue of Judith

90 A ditto of Hercules choking a Lion

91 A Sarcophagus,withBoys 92 A Sea Lion

93 Dogs and a Boar

94 A sleeping Cupid 95 A Sarcophagus

96 A basso relievo Roman Repast

97 A trunk of a Woman 98 Soldiers fighting

99 Ditto

100 A trunk of a young Man

101 The Triumph of Amphitryon

102 A trunk of a Woman
103 The taking of Troy
104 Boys embracing
105 The Herculean Games
106 Boys

107 A Woman and a Child

108 A Roman Monument, with three busts

109 Part of a Roman Monuiment

110 Ditto

123 Ditto of one of her sons 124 A Bust of Venus de Medicis

125 Ditto of a Woman

126 A Bust, clothed

111 Bust of a Roman Head 127 Ditto

112 Ditto

113 A Roman Bust

114 A Bust of Fauna

115 Ditto of Faunus

116 The Bust of a young
Man

117 A Bust of Diana
118 Ditto of a Grecian
119 Ditto of a Woman
120 Ditto of a Philosopher
121 Philosophy, a Bust
122 A Bust of Niobe

128 Ditto.

129 Ditto

130 A Bust, naked
131 Bust of an old Man
132 A Bust of a Roman
133 Bust of Henry VIIL
(modern)

134 Do. (modern) of Rob. C.
Pal. Rhen. D. Bav.
1637

135 A Colossal Head of Apollo

Opposite to the gateway of five Orders, is the

entrance to the

DIVINITY SCHOOL.

This fine room was completed in 1480; it displays an example of rich Gothic masonry that has few rivals. Sir Christopher Wren was employed, in the beginning of the last century, to repair and restore its splendid stone roof; and he executed the work with that skill and judgment which distinguished all his undertakings. In this School are still performed the exercises for the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity. It is divided by a carved railing into two parts, in the upper of which is an elevated pulpit for the Professor, desks for disputants, &c. The lower part is appointed for the audience. Opposite the Divinity School stands

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