I had now, in company of several English gentlemen, an opportunity of seeing the Emperor’s collection of pictures, which is exposed at the price of twelve florins. It consists of three long galleries, with four or five large and square chambers. The whole number of pieces amounts to a thousand six hundred and sixty three, performed by the best hands of Europe, particularly these which follow: _Albert Durer_, _Anton. Correggio_, _Bassan_, _Palma_ senior and junior, _Prugel_ senior and junior, _Paul Veronese_, _Bronzini_, _Franck_ senior, _Paduanino_, _Jo. Bellino_, _Poussin_, _Gerome Poss_, _Portononi_, _Spagnoletto_, _Raphael Sancio_, _Giorgioni_, _Titian_, _Tintoretto_, _Van Ach_, _Holbein_, _Rubens_, _Van Dick_, _John de Heem_, _Pauditz_, and others. Among these there was one piece of _Raphael_, which seemed to excel the rest, being _a saint holding a crucifix_, which belonged to the cabinet of King _Charles_ the first of England, and was sold by _Oliver_ to this court for twelve thousand florins. Besides this collection of pictures, there is another set of rarities, preserved in a cabinet at one end of the third gallery, and consisting of _intaglios_ and _cameos_; among which is a large head of _Domitian_ in agate; a series of gold medals, and among them two of _Otho_, to which is added a _Pisennius Niger_ in silver of the third size. In the same cabinet are several small statues of brass and stone, among the rest those of _Venus_ and _Hercules_; and likewise several antient busts, particularly of _Plato_ and _Aristotle_; with divers sepulchral lamps, urns, and other remains of antiquity. To say nothing of the curiosities found in the tomb of _Childeric_ the first by _Leopold William_, Archduke of _Austria_, and uncle to this Emperor, at _Tournay_ in the year 1657. Among these are some remarkable gold coins of that time, with the repeated emblem of flies or bees, the wings of which at a distance give the figure of a _flower de lys_, and are supposed to be the real arms of France, tho this resemblance has occasioned their being mistaken for that flower. But more especially is to be remembred the order of antient busts ranged on one side of the three galleries, among which are several heads of _Emperors_, and _Satyrs_, with one of _Socrates_; as likewise an intire figure of _Magna Mater turrita_, with a _lion_ under her chair, a _tympanum_ in her left hand, and _patina_ in her right; which cost this court a thousand florins at _Rome_. November iii.