ON AN ANTIQUE TASTE CAMEO, FOUND AT STANWIX,

NEAR CARLISLE. Bv C. V. KING, MA. A LITTLE relic of the Tvoman occupation of this island lias lately been brought under my notice, possessing considerable claims to our attention on the grounds of art and history, but much more from the circumstances under Nvhich it was discovered. This object is a circular disk, 11 in. in diameter, of opaque, lavender-coloured antique paste, bearing a female bust in half-relief, and in front-face, with the liair tvaced, parted down the middle, and falling in one ample tress far down over each shoulder upon her bosom. These latter ])articulars in the treatment of the figure will bo shown, in the course of this inquiry, to be of essential importance towards the identification of the original of this portrait. As regards the first con.^idcratiiJii mentioned -that of ar- tistic merit — tliis work is of the higliest order; jitr ahliougji cruelly corroded hy lime and friction uj)on the surface, it ^till shows itself, at the first glance, to liave been cast IVom