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 212
sents no detail, and, ingeneral, cannot be copied. The horizon is, asusual, very high in the picture, and the blueof the sea, and that of the sky, are only slightlydifferent. It is by no means improbable thatthe whole may be a portrait of some place onthe coast. PLATE LVIII. PICTURE. Plate LVIIT.… … \--^ «*: THE PLATES. 133 sented flat, in order to bring it within thelimits of the plate. We have here a farm or country house,with its usual accompaniments of domesticanimals, and the yoke for the oxen on theleft. That species of tree or palm, which growsout of the opening of a shed, is peculiar…
Architecture, Roman
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