Moses, 1824: lámina y capítulo completo del monumento Tadini

[Portada, página7 del PDF.] THE WORKS OF ANTONIO CANOVA, IN SCULPTURE AND MODELLING, ENGRAVED IN OUTLINE BY HENRY MOSES; WITH DESCRIPTIONS FROM THE ITALIAN OF THE COUNTESS ALBRIZZI, AND A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR BY COUNT CICOGNARA. VOL. II. LONDON: SEPTIMUS PROWETT, STRAND. M.DCCC.XXIV. [Lámina, página132 del PDF.] MONUMENT OF COUNT TADINI. [Dos créditos diminutos, bajo el dibujo, de lectura parcial:] [A. … ilegible] / [… ilegible]. [La urna tiene trazos minúsculos no descifrables con seguridad; el basamento está sin inscripción. No se completa su texto mediante el capítulo que sigue.] [Página133 del PDF.] MONUMENT OF THE COUNT FAUSTO TADINI. (ALTO RELIEVO IN MARBLE.) This simple monument was erected to the memory of Count Fausto Tadini, and records a singular and melancholy event. His father, the Count Luigi Tadini, a Cremonese of high rank, began the building of a palace at Zovare, which he intended for the residence of this his only son, who was then in the flower of his age, and was soon to have been married: beloved by his parents, and favoured by the Muses, inspired by whom, he had written elegant verses in praise of the productions of Canova's chisel. One day, while observing with his parents the progress of the work, his careful mother thinking the spot dangerous where he stood, wished him to remove to one more secure; attentive to her will, he left the place of apparent danger for one of more seeming security, when suddenly a part of the building gave way, and buried him beneath its ruins. [Página134 del PDF. Encabezado: MONUMENT OF THE COUNT FAUSTO TADINI.] The horror of his mother, at the moment of seeing a beloved child crushed to death before her eyes, can be known only by a mother's heart; senseless and motionless she remained, as this marble figure which Canova's affection for the unfortunate family prompted him to make in eternal remembrance of this afflicting event. The noble edifice was afterwards converted into a sacred chapel, in which the mangled remains were deposited, and where this monument now stands. It is in high-relief, rising from a marble slab which is ornamented with a very elegant cornice; upon a column, serving as a pedestal, is placed a cinerary vase, such as among the Greeks was devoted to the service of the dead; on the top is a wreath of flowers falling down on both sides; in the front this short inscription, CINERES FAUSTINI TADINI; opposite to the vase, on an unadorned seat, is a female figure, who appears sunken in unconsolable sorrow; she is clothed in a tunic, and wears over that a plain mantle, leaving uncovered her right arm only, which has fallen abandonedly on her lap; the left holds up the border of her mantle to her face, which it partly conceals; the eye which is seen, is half closed, as if the eye-lid had been sunken by long weeping. The features of the unhappy mother which Canova has preserved [Página135 del PDF. Encabezado: MONUMENT OF THE COUNT FAUSTO TADINI.] in this mournful figure, adds, inexpressibly, to our sympathy. On the tablet beneath is the following inscription, LIBERA COM. MORONATI TADINI MATER MŒRENTISSIMA.