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Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii : the result of excavations since 1819 (1835)

Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836, Uwins, Thomas, 1782-1857, Beever, W. A, Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870, Tingle, James, fl. 1824-1850, Havell, Daniel, d. 1826?, Havell, Frederick James, 1801-1840, Kelsall, W, Henshall, J., fl. 1828-1850, Varrall, J. C, Allen, James Baylis, 1803-1876, Winkles, B, Starling, Schmollinger, W, Smollenger, Kernott, J. H, Higham, Thomas, 1796-1844, Gladwin, George, fl. 1821-1838, Faithorn, E, Fisher, S, Fenner, Sears & Co · London : Lewis A. Lewis · leaf 244

An illustration from Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii : the result of excavations since 1819, 1835, leaf 244
NPERISTYLE. This Plate exhibits one of the mostsplendidly decorated walls of the house ofthe Dioscuri. The curtain is added becausethere is no trace of a door in the openingbetween the two courts, and the ceiling ofthe atrium is restored, since there can beno doubt on the subject, for the better… … THE PLATES. J55 PLATE LXXX. DRINKING-SCENE. This scene, Plate LXXX., which is found,in exceedingly bad company, in an inner roomof the lupanare, is, though superior in styleto the profanations of the art by which it issurrounded, but moderate in execution. Thepicture itself is nevertheless…

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