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232 POMPEIANA.
having been effected in that quarter, it was found
■ to contain a temple.
The painter in these subjects lias given to the pro-
portions of children, heads bearing the character
of grown men, leaving the extremities always
unfinished. Some of these are given in the
Plates 55 to 62, more with a view to the archi-
tecture they represent, than as works of art. The
buildings in the back ground are always a faint
blue or white, and the trees badly daubed. The
figures of a dark blackish red, generally less well
preserved, are difficult to make out.
Seneca moralizes upon the unnatural custom of
planting gardens upon the house tops, which
enhanced considerably their value. It is not un-
common in Italy and Malta to the present day,
The ornament separating these two subjects is a
threshold, in mosaic.
PLATES LVIL—LVI1I.
These paintings are highly curious, as exhibiting
some resemblance of houses, perhaps in situa-
tions removed from the immediate protection of
a town, or where it might be considered expe-
dient in their construction to afford the means of
having been effected in that quarter, it was found
■ to contain a temple.
The painter in these subjects lias given to the pro-
portions of children, heads bearing the character
of grown men, leaving the extremities always
unfinished. Some of these are given in the
Plates 55 to 62, more with a view to the archi-
tecture they represent, than as works of art. The
buildings in the back ground are always a faint
blue or white, and the trees badly daubed. The
figures of a dark blackish red, generally less well
preserved, are difficult to make out.
Seneca moralizes upon the unnatural custom of
planting gardens upon the house tops, which
enhanced considerably their value. It is not un-
common in Italy and Malta to the present day,
The ornament separating these two subjects is a
threshold, in mosaic.
PLATES LVIL—LVI1I.
These paintings are highly curious, as exhibiting
some resemblance of houses, perhaps in situa-
tions removed from the immediate protection of
a town, or where it might be considered expe-
dient in their construction to afford the means of