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VIGNETTES.
The Putealj forming the subject of the vignette at the
head of the Preface, is explained page 242.
The six following vignettes are one fourth the scale
of the original pictures, of which twelve, painted upon
dark grounds, were found, together with thirteen pieces
of less merit, adorning the same chamber at Pompeii, in
the year 1749. The whole have been already published
in the learned and no less expensive work of the Academy
of Naples.
Page IS.
A most beautiful and graceful figure. Her vest,
of transparent yellow, is edged with blue; and her light
hair, intermixed with pearls, is bound with fillets of
white: she wears bracelets, and a neck-lace of gold.
* Qualis fuit Venus Apuleius cum fuit virgo, nudo et
intecto corpore, perfectam formositatem professa, nisi
quod tenui pallio bombycino umbrabat spectabilem
pubem.'—See Ant d'Ercol.
The Putealj forming the subject of the vignette at the
head of the Preface, is explained page 242.
The six following vignettes are one fourth the scale
of the original pictures, of which twelve, painted upon
dark grounds, were found, together with thirteen pieces
of less merit, adorning the same chamber at Pompeii, in
the year 1749. The whole have been already published
in the learned and no less expensive work of the Academy
of Naples.
Page IS.
A most beautiful and graceful figure. Her vest,
of transparent yellow, is edged with blue; and her light
hair, intermixed with pearls, is bound with fillets of
white: she wears bracelets, and a neck-lace of gold.
* Qualis fuit Venus Apuleius cum fuit virgo, nudo et
intecto corpore, perfectam formositatem professa, nisi
quod tenui pallio bombycino umbrabat spectabilem
pubem.'—See Ant d'Ercol.