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TARQUINIL—The Cemetery. [chap. xvih.
paintings have suffered from smoke, they have been
further defaced by the wantonness of visitors. Micali
says, " they have been pilfered piece-meal by trans-Alpine
travellers, who boast of their intelligence."6 Such an
assertion is in accordance with the rampant nationality of
that writer, but of such pilferings I could perceive few
signs, and of the names scratched on the wall, which have
done the most injury, I saw none but Italian. Though
Englishmen have an extended reputation for this sort of
barbarism, they by no means monopolise the privilege.
" I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a
cockney" in other portions than Britain. Throughout
Spain, Portugal, Italy, and elsewhere on the Continent, I
have always found the same propensity to record indi-
vidual insignificance prevalent—to fulfil, what some one
calls, " tout les petits devoirs d'un voyageur ;" and on any
remarkable site or building, especially in the neighbour-
hood of large cities, have always remarked the great
majority of names inscribed to be those of natives.
The figures painted in this tomb may be divided into
two classes or worlds—of the living and the dead ; which
in some instances, however, are scarcely distinguishable.
In the latter must be included another class, not less
numerous, for the tomb teems
" With all the grisly legions that troop
Under the sooty flag of Acheron."
To the living belong the combats, on the frieze of the
much easier than it would be at pre- distinguishable. And even in 1760,
sent; for in his time these figures may Pacciaudi said they had almost vanished,
not have been in better condition than and were to be made out only by
they are now. Winckelmann speaks putting the light very close ; the red
of them as very indistinct. Cardinal alone being very apparent. Some are
Garampi, in 1786, said certain of now only to be traced by the scratched
the colours only were preserved, and outline, but others which were merely
the figures were in general dark sha- coloured have faded from the wall,
dows, with the attitudes and outlines 6 Micali, Ant. Pop. Ital. III. p. 9S.
paintings have suffered from smoke, they have been
further defaced by the wantonness of visitors. Micali
says, " they have been pilfered piece-meal by trans-Alpine
travellers, who boast of their intelligence."6 Such an
assertion is in accordance with the rampant nationality of
that writer, but of such pilferings I could perceive few
signs, and of the names scratched on the wall, which have
done the most injury, I saw none but Italian. Though
Englishmen have an extended reputation for this sort of
barbarism, they by no means monopolise the privilege.
" I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a
cockney" in other portions than Britain. Throughout
Spain, Portugal, Italy, and elsewhere on the Continent, I
have always found the same propensity to record indi-
vidual insignificance prevalent—to fulfil, what some one
calls, " tout les petits devoirs d'un voyageur ;" and on any
remarkable site or building, especially in the neighbour-
hood of large cities, have always remarked the great
majority of names inscribed to be those of natives.
The figures painted in this tomb may be divided into
two classes or worlds—of the living and the dead ; which
in some instances, however, are scarcely distinguishable.
In the latter must be included another class, not less
numerous, for the tomb teems
" With all the grisly legions that troop
Under the sooty flag of Acheron."
To the living belong the combats, on the frieze of the
much easier than it would be at pre- distinguishable. And even in 1760,
sent; for in his time these figures may Pacciaudi said they had almost vanished,
not have been in better condition than and were to be made out only by
they are now. Winckelmann speaks putting the light very close ; the red
of them as very indistinct. Cardinal alone being very apparent. Some are
Garampi, in 1786, said certain of now only to be traced by the scratched
the colours only were preserved, and outline, but others which were merely
the figures were in general dark sha- coloured have faded from the wall,
dows, with the attitudes and outlines 6 Micali, Ant. Pop. Ital. III. p. 9S.