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Title: Pompeii; its history, buildings and antiquities : an account of the destruction of the city, with a full description of the remains, and of the recent excavations and also an itinerary for visitors
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Dyer, Thomas Henry, 1804-1888
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Publisher: London : Bell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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y remarkably scant in longitude behind. He is atwork upon the portrait of another pigmy, clothed in a mannerto indicate a person of distinction : the sinus, or gatheringof the bosom of the toga, is very observable. The artist isseated opposite to his sitter, at an awful distance from thepicture, in an attitude which makes no commoSL ohare ofsteadiness of hand requisite to apply the pencil with anypretence to accuracy. The picture, already pretty faradvanced, ig placed upon an easel, similar in constructionto ours. By the side of the artist stands his palette, whichis a little table with four feet, and by it is a pot to wash hispencils in. He therefore was working with gum, or somesort of water-colours. But he did not confine himself to thisbranch of the art, for to the right we see his colour-grinder,who prepares, in a vessel placed on some hot coals, coloursmixed with punic wax and oil. Two amateurs, or parasitesperhaps of the person who is sitting, enter the studio, and 291 POMPEII.
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A female painting a picture of the bearded Bacchus. P03IPEIAN AET. 295

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