The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 101 Paintings with a few figures representing some scene of ordinarylife are such as that, to which we have already alluded in the House ofthe Fuller, representing the process of cleaning or fullmg cloth, of afemale painter copymg a head of Bacchus, whUe two other women lookon, and others of the like kmd. Some of these are of a grotesque and comicalcharacter, resembling our caricature, as one fomid in the Casa
The ruins of Pompeii : a series of eighteen photographic views : with an account of the destruction of the city, and a description of the most interesting remains . THE RUINS OF POMPEII. 101 Paintings with a few figures representing some scene of ordinarylife are such as that, to which we have already alluded in the House ofthe Fuller, representing the process of cleaning or fullmg cloth, of afemale painter copymg a head of Bacchus, whUe two other women lookon, and others of the like kmd. Some of these are of a grotesque and comicalcharacter, resembling our caricature, as one fomid in the Casa Carolina,and represented in the following cut. A pigmy artist, somewhat scantily. STUDIO OF A PAINTER OF ANTIQUITY. dressed, is taking the portrait of another pigmy, whose head already makesa great figure upon the canvas. The distance at which the artist sitsfrom his work, and the mamier in which he holds the brush, seem to de-mand great steadiness and sureness of hand, and suggest the notion that somepractice of this sort was requisite in order to obtain that certamty of touchwhich the wall-pamting must have demanded. The easel much resemblesour own, while by the artists side is a little table with his palette and a potin which to wash his brushes. On the right his colour-grinder is preparingcolours mixed with wax and oil m a vessel with hot embers under it. In thedistance is a pupil, who, disturbed apparently by the entrance of two amateurs,turns roimd to see what is going forward. The \dsitors seem to be discussingthe merits of the picture. At the extremity is a bird, the meaning of whichis not obvious, but is supposed to typify some singer or musician. The repr
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