to collect ancient paintings. It has all the marks in the upper corner, of having been joined to a piece of wood, and used for a sign; it cost five hundred guineas!
DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S CORREGGIO CAPTURED AT
VITTORIA.
Cunningham warms into rapture in speaking of
this picture. "The size is small, some fifteen inches
or so; but true genius can work miracles in
small compass. The central light of the picture is
altogether heavenly; we never saw anything so insufferably
brilliant; it haunted us round the room
at Apsley House, and fairly extinguished the light
of its companion pictures."
CORREGGIO'S ANCONA.
Correggio painted for the church of the Conventuali
at Correggio, an Ancona, (a small altar-piece
in wood,) consisting of three pictures when he was
in his twentieth year, as appears, says Lanzi, from
the written agreement, which fixes the price at one
hundred gold ducats, or one hundred zecchins, and
proves the esteem in which his talents were then
held. "He here represented St. Bartholomew and St.
John, each occupying one side, while in the middle
compartment, he drew a Repose of the Holy Family
flying into Egypt, to which last was added a figure
of St. Francis. Francesco I., Duke of Modena, was
so greatly delighted with this picture, that he sent
