VILLA ALBANI.

_Open on Tuesdays from 12 till 4. Permission to be obtained of the

bankers_ Messrs. Spada and Co., 11 Via Condotti. The museum contains a

fine collection of statues, busts, sarcophagi, &c. The grounds are

splendid, and numerous antique statues are dispersed through them.

_Catalogues can be obtained of the custodian._

GRAND PORTICO.--51. Augustus; 79. Agrippina; 61. Faustina (?); 72.

Marcus Aurelius; 82. Hadrian.

VESTIBULE.--19. Caryatid, by Criton and Nicholaus of Athens.

LEFT GALLERY.--48. Alexander; 45. Scipio; 40. Hannibal; 46. Brutus

(?); 110. Faun.

RIGHT GALLERY.--93. Juno; 106. Faun and Bacchus; 120. Son of Augustus;

118. Seneca; 112. Numa; 143. Livia sacrificing. Vase, with the

labours of Hercules, found at his temple on the Via Appia. 222.

Relief--the Nile.

_Staircase from Vestibule._--891. Rome Triumphant; 885. Relief--the

Death of the Children of Niobe; 893. Antoninus Pius Distributing Corn

(?); 894. Orphan Children of Faustina (?). (See page 44.)

UPPER FLOOR, FIRST ROOM.--905. Apollo; 906. An Athlete; 915. Cupid.

NOBLE GALLERY.--Reliefs; 1008. Hercules and the Hesperides; 1009.

Dædalus and Icarus; 1010. A Sacrifice; 1013. Antonius holding a Horse;

1018. Marcus Aurelius, Antoninus, Faustina, and Rome; 1014. Venus,

Diana, Apollo, and Victory sacrificing.

LEFT ROOM.--1013. Relief--Antinoüs Crowned with the Lotus Flower,

_very beautiful_.

SECOND ROOM.--952. Apollo Sauroctonos, by Praxiteles.

_Beyond the villa is the_

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