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40 POMPEIANA.
Ulysses after his return from Troy, and no
reason can be assigned for the extraordinary
seat of the female. The peaked Chinese hat
is not uncommon at Pompeii. The colour-
ing of all the paintings in this tablinum has
a greater variety of light and shade than'is
usually observed.
On each side of Achilles, in Scyros, are
dancing figures on blue panels, which have
great merit and force of colouring; and
below, on a yellow ground, are cupids in
chariots drawn by animals (See Vignette pre-
fixed to Chap. XL) and engaged in games.
Below are several compartments in black, or-
namented with figures, foliage, and a variety
of borders.
On the whole, nothing yet found equals
the beauty of this wall, presenting a super-
ficies of nearly twenty feet square, adorned
with every species of painting, and exhibit-
ing a perfect epitome of every thing to be
found in Pompeii.
It was found impossible to reduce the
whole of this into the common dimensions
of the plates in this volume, so that a double
plate, No. LXX., has been given, which,
Ulysses after his return from Troy, and no
reason can be assigned for the extraordinary
seat of the female. The peaked Chinese hat
is not uncommon at Pompeii. The colour-
ing of all the paintings in this tablinum has
a greater variety of light and shade than'is
usually observed.
On each side of Achilles, in Scyros, are
dancing figures on blue panels, which have
great merit and force of colouring; and
below, on a yellow ground, are cupids in
chariots drawn by animals (See Vignette pre-
fixed to Chap. XL) and engaged in games.
Below are several compartments in black, or-
namented with figures, foliage, and a variety
of borders.
On the whole, nothing yet found equals
the beauty of this wall, presenting a super-
ficies of nearly twenty feet square, adorned
with every species of painting, and exhibit-
ing a perfect epitome of every thing to be
found in Pompeii.
It was found impossible to reduce the
whole of this into the common dimensions
of the plates in this volume, so that a double
plate, No. LXX., has been given, which,