Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii, the result of excavations since 1819 (1837)
Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836 · London : Lewis A. Lewis · leaf 202
lsides. This is not effected by flues, but by oneuniversal flue formed by a lining of bricks ortiles, strongly connected with the outer wall bycramps of iron, yet distant about four inchesfrom it, so as to leave a space by which thehot air might ascend from the furnace, andincrease, almost equally,… … ■ POMPEIANA. llO some part of the vault, the method of sus-pending it was, at the period of the excava-tion, sufficiently visible. In the view, Plate XXXI., it will be ob-served that scarcely any thing was placed insymmetry with the centre ; the circular win-dow in the alcove with its ornamental…
Architecture, Roman
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
