no. x.
Torso of a Venus.

This Torso (or mutilated figure)
of a Venus, is of most graceful
beauty, and must recommend itself
strongly to the amateurs of taste
and discernment; we have only to
regret, that time has spared us
but a fragment of what in its perfect

―189―

state must have been a chef d'oeuvre
of the art.