| Description | English: “Image of the Tiber River in marble, the work of an excellent artist, in the Vatican garden of the Popes in Rome.” Latina: Tiberis Fluvii simulacrum è marmore excellentis artificis opus, in Vaticano Pontificum viridario Romae. |
| Date | 1585 |
| Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
| Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
| Description | English: “Statue of Laocoon, made from marble with wondrous art, in the Pontifical garden, Rome, not as described by Virgil or Pliny but after the description of the Greek Poets.” Latina: Laocoontis signum e marmore mira arte factum in Pontificio viridario, Romae non quale à Virgilio, ac Plinio, sed cuiusmodi à Gracis Poetis describitur. |
| Date | 1585 |
| Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
| Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
From Gleason’s Pictorial, 1854. —The Welsh stone actually installed, about 200 feet up, is inscribed “Fy iaith, fy ngwlad, fy nghenedl Cymru—WALES—Cymru am byth.” There are no figures.
From Gift-Leaves of American Poetry, 1849.
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