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Pompeiana : the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii : the result of excavations since 1819 (1832)

Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836, Uwins, Thomas, 1782-1857, Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870, Cahusac, R. F, Henshall, J., fl. 1828-1850, Tingle, James, fl. 1824-1850, Havell, Daniel, d. 1826?, Varrall, J. C, Kelsall, W, Allen, James Baylis, 1803-1876, Winkles, Benjamin, Starling, Schmollinger, W, Havell, Frederick James, 1801-1840, Havell, James, Kernott, J. H, Higham, Gladwin, George, fl. 1821-1838, Faithorn, F, Fenner, Sears & Co · London : Jennings and Chaplin · leaf 201

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; but there is little worthy of re-mark, except that it would seem as if theancients possessed every thing as well asourselves. This picture is in the house ofthe Dioscuri. PLATE LVI. GARDEN AND PORTICO. The inner court, or garden, of the houseof the second or little fountain, is here re-presented;… … THE PLATES. 129 is left open, by a strange perversity of judg-ment, the author has taken the liberty ofputting a ceiling to the colonnade, by wayof explaining its original state. All the restis precisely as it now remains, in the year1829, even to the marble table which wasfound on the spot. The…

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