-up caverns, in which the air is constantly warm anddry, the pictures have preserved their freshness of tint in the moststartling fashion. And to obtain all this harmonious effect nolight but an artificial one was available. It was by the smokyglare of torches, or by the flickering flame of little… … Fig. iSi.—The -.mailer sarcophagus-chamber in the tomb of Rameses VI. (Irom H.ireau, pi. 21.) never reached greater perfection than in these characteristicproductions of its genius, and yet no human eye was to enjoythem after that day upon which the final touch was to be given totheir beauties,…
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