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THE PLATES. 133
sented flat, in order to bring it within the
limits of the plate.
We have here a farm or country house,
with its usual accompaniments of domestic
animals, and the yoke for the oxen on the
left.
That species of tree or palm, which grows
out of the opening of a shed, is peculiar to
this picture.
The figures are more defined than usual,
and seem as if they must have been intended
to represent some known event in history, or
in private life. The return of the shepherd
of King Polybus to his wife Periboea, after
finding the infant CEdipus suspended to the
tree on Mount Cithaeron, might possibly be
intended.
PLATE LIX.
PAINTING.
This picture, Plate LIX., is on the left
side of the fountain exhibited in Plate LVL,
and is of the same shape upon the wall as
that of Plate LVII.
sented flat, in order to bring it within the
limits of the plate.
We have here a farm or country house,
with its usual accompaniments of domestic
animals, and the yoke for the oxen on the
left.
That species of tree or palm, which grows
out of the opening of a shed, is peculiar to
this picture.
The figures are more defined than usual,
and seem as if they must have been intended
to represent some known event in history, or
in private life. The return of the shepherd
of King Polybus to his wife Periboea, after
finding the infant CEdipus suspended to the
tree on Mount Cithaeron, might possibly be
intended.
PLATE LIX.
PAINTING.
This picture, Plate LIX., is on the left
side of the fountain exhibited in Plate LVL,
and is of the same shape upon the wall as
that of Plate LVII.