Gell, William: Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii ; the result of excavations since 1819 ; in two volumes (Band 2) (London, 1832)

4 POMPEIANA.

ner, as in the present stage of science and
art.

The walls of this court or garden pre-
sent us with three pictures of a species quite
different from any thing at Pompeii. The
general effect may be learned from Plate
LVI.; but, as the pictures themselves are
given in the three following plates, it is un-
necessary, at present, to notice them more
particularly.

If the custodi can be believed, there
was found, at the time of the excavation,
on the left side of the brink of the fountain,
the pretty sedent bronze figure now in the
museum at Naples. He had a basket, with
a little bronze fish in it, on his left arm.
Under his right was an outre, or skin full
pf Hquor, and the hand seemed as if he
might have held a fishing-rod of cane. On
the little central column in the piscina stood
a cupid holding a dove which spouted water.
On the right brink was a marble caryatis
of the same size as the fisherman on the
left. Water seems also to have fallen from
a mask in the centre of the schola or con-