Reminiscences of the design for the tomb of Julius are not infrequent; and it may be remarked, as throwing a side-light upon that irrecoverable project of his earlier manhood, that the figures posed upon the various spaces of architecture differ in their scale.

Two belonging to this series are of especial interest, since we learn from them how he thought of introducing the rivers at the basement of the composition.

It seems that he hesitated long about the employment of circular spaces in the framework of the marble panelling.

These were finally rejected.

One of the finest and most comprehensive of the drawings I am now describing contains a rough draft of a curved sarcophagus, with an allegorical figure reclining upon it, indicating the first conception of the Dawn.