coloured-A holy family, by Parmegiano; the children beautifully painted. The Virgin contemplating her Child; Primaticcio: the head of the Virgin is graceful, and full of elegance; but the figure much too tall— Of the family of the Caracci, represented in a butcher's fhop, imputed to the pencil of Annibal; as it is a disputed picture, I shall fufpend my judgment as to the master; yet it may be fafely allowed to be a work of great merit. The anxiety of the foldier, who is buying the meat, is forcibly expreffed; as are likewise the inferior parts of the picture: it is to be regretted, that fo much merit has been lavished on so disgusting a subject. Of two pictures, faid to be by Raphael, the one a Nativity, the other a Madona, they have been fo repaired by a modern hand, that he has fairly eclipsed the great original. IN New College, founded by William of Wyckham, the painted glass, by that excel02 lent lent artist, Jervaise, after the cartoons of Sir Joshua Reynolds, is highly deferving commendation. Though Mr. Jervaise cannot be faid to have reftored the art of painting on glass, he certainly has greatly contributed to its excellence, by having happily united his labours with fome of the first artists of the present day, to give that species of painting fomething more to recommend it than mere gaudy colouring. This idea will be better proved by a comparison of his works with the old windows in the chapel of this college, which were painted as early as its foundation. MUCH is due to Mr. Wyatt for his judicious care in attempting to restore the remains of the ancient Gothic altar in the chapel, which, though it may have fuffered greatly from the hand of time, and certainly more from the ravages of reformation, is not yet fo defaced, that it fhould be out of the power power of so masterly an artist, to restore in it, one of the finest specimens of ancient elegance in the Gothic style, remaining in this Kingdom. IN Wadham College will be found a work of Ifaac Fuller of a fingular kind. It is an altar-piece, painted on an afh-coloured cloth, which serves as a middle tint to the shades, which are of brown crayon. The lights are heightened by white, and being worked up as a crayon picture, and preffed with hot irons, which caufe an exfudation from the canvass, fo incorporate the crayon with the texture of the canvafs, as to render the colours proof against the hard rubbing even of a brush. THE fecond court at Trinity College, is, from a defign of Sir Chriftopher Wren, and may justly vie with any modern edifice in this this university. A curious manuscript of Euclid is fhewn in the library: it is a translation from the Arabic into Latin, before the discovery of the original Greek by Adelardus Bathonienfis, in 1130. IN Worcester College will likewife be found an invaluable treasure, Inigo Jones's Palladio, with his own manufcript notes in Italian. It was bequeathed to this college by Dr. Clarke. In the poffeffion of the Duke of Devonshire is another work of this kind, with notes in Latin. In the various colleges and halls in this venerable receptacle of knowlege, each has its fhare of learned and curious treasures, which, from the brevity of this work, are too numerous to be particularized. I have, therefore, only aimed at a few flight remarks on fuch objects as ftruck me most forcibly, and |