98 Soldiers fighting, 1 foot 11 inches by 2 feet 3. 99 Ditto, 3 feet 11 by 1 foot 3. 100 A Trunk of a young Man, 1 foot 11. 101 The Triumph of Amphitryon, 2 feet by 2 feet. 102 A Trunk of a Woman sitting, 1 foot 3 inches high. 103 The taking of Troy, 7 feet by 11 inches.-The figures executed with amazing expression. 104 Boys embracing, 2 feet 3 inches by 1 foot 6. 105 The Herculean Games, 2 feet 3 inches by 2 feet. 106 Boys, 2 feet by 1 foot. 107 A Woman and a Child sitting in a square nich, 1 foot 9 inches, by 1 foot 7. 108 A Roman Monument with three Busts, 3 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 3. 109 Part of a Roman Monument. 110 Ditto. 111 Bust of a Roman Head. 112 Ditto. 113 A Roman Bust. 114 A Bust of Fauna. 115 A 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 clothed. 120 Ditto of a Philosopher. 121 Philosophy, a bust. 122 A Bust of Niobe. 123 Ditto of one of her Sons. 124 Ditto of Venus de Medicis. 125 Ditto of a Woman clothed. 128 Ditto. 129 Ditto. 130 A Bust naked, head wanting. 131 Bust of an old Man half naked. 132 Ditto of a Roman, 133 Bust of Henry VIII. modern. 134 Do. (mod.) of Rob. C. Pal. Rhen. D. Bav. 1637. Æt. 17. 135 A Colossal Head of Apollo. THE THEATRE. The front of this building is opposite to the Divinity School, adorned with Corinthian pillars, and the statues of Archbishop Sheldon and the Duke of Ormond. Its roof has been admired as a chef-d'œuvre of Carpentry, being continued to a great breadth, by a very ingenious truss of timber-work, sustained only by the side walls, without intermediate support, its extent being 80 feet one way by 70 feet the other. In consequence of the failure of the original roof, it was taken off, and a new one in its present form was executed in the year 1802. When properly filled, the Chancellor or ViceChancellor being seated in the centre of the semicircular part, the Noblemen and Doctors on his right and left hand, the Proctors and Curators in their robes, the Masters of Arts, Bachelors, and Under-Graduates, in their respective habits and places, together with strangers of both sexes, it makes a most august appearance. On the north side is the statue of Charles II. Within are the Portraits of the Founder (Archbishop Sheldon), the Duke of Ormond, and Six Christopher Wren, the Architect. Likewise a curious Ceiling, by Streater; the following description of which is taken from Plott's Natural History of Oxfordshire: "IN imitation of the Theatres of the ancient Greeks and Romans, which were too large to be covered with lead or tile, so this, by the painting of the flat roof within, is represented open; and as they stretched a cordage from pilaster to pilaster, upon which they strained a covering of cloth, to protect the people from the injuries of the weather, so here is a cord-moulding gilded, that reaches cross the house, both in length and breadth, which supporteth a great reddish drapery, supposed to have covered the roof, but now furled up by the Genii round about the house, towards the wall which discovereth the open air, and maketh way for the descent of the Arts and Sciences, that are congregated in a circle of clouds, to whose assembly Truth descends, as being solicited and implored by them all. For joy of this festival some other Genii sport about the clouds, with their festoons of flowers and laurels, and prepare their garlands of laurels and roses, viz. Honour and Pleasure, for the great lovers and students of those arts and that this assembly might be perfectly happy, their great enemies and disturbers, Envy, Rapine, and Brutality, are by the Genii of their opposite virtues, viz. Prudence, Fortitude, and Eloquence, driven from the society, and thrown down headlong from the clouds: the report of the assembly of the one, and the expulsion of the other, being proclaimed through the open and serene air by some other of the Genii, who, |