Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916, Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford, 1831-1892 · New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons; London, H. Grevel & Company · leaf 201
I85 PAINTING AND SCULPTURE. of the Nile, some half-clad men and women are singing and carousing. Little papyrus skiffs, each rowed by a single boatman, and other vessels fill the vacant spaces of , the composition. Behind the buildings we see the … Fig. 173. commencement of the desert. The water forms large pools at the base of overhanging hills, and various animals, real or imaginary, are pursued by shaven- headed hunters in the upper part of the picture. Now, precisely after the manner of the Roman mosaicist, the old
Art · Archaeology
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