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 77
some sorts of flowers, and particularlybulbous roots, may have been lost in Italv,as we rarely find that invention has beensubstituted for reality in a department ofnature which affords such vast and pleasingvariety. Some are of opinion that the redflowers in question resemble the Guernseylily.… … POMPEIANA. 21 Crypt, which is there fifteen feet eight incheswide, exactly behind the semicircular tri-bunal, and close to the staircase before men-tioned as ascending from the Via dei Mer-canti, is a recess painted in green and redpanels, in the centre of which is the statueof Eumachia, the public…
Architecture, Roman
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