Vatican Museum (180) - Statue of mercury as a child, in the act of enjoining silence. (Cent. I.) A pleasing little statue, found near Tivoli. Photographer: Unknown
Vatican Museum (132) - Statue of Mercury restored first with the head of Hadrian, and afterwards with a head by Canova. It was found on the Esquiline, near the Church of S. Martino ai Monti. Photographer: Unknown
Vatican Museum (11) - Statue of Silenus with the infant Bacchus. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
The original is mentioned by Pliny. The many copies extant of it shew how much it was admired by the ancients. It is a good deal restored, and is from the Galleria Ruspoli. (Greek style).
Vatican Museum (544) - Statue of Silenus, the Tutor of Bacchus, found in 1791, in the Via delle Cese near Aricia, where the villa of P.M. Regulus (who died in the time of Nero) is supposed to have stood. Photographer: Unknown