Library of Entertaining Knowledge Volume 35

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...to use the greatest care not to lose or to confound property. Another female, seated on a stool, seems occupied in cleaning one of the cards. Both of the figures las described wear green tunics: the first of them has a yellow under-tunic, the latter a white one. The resemblance in colours between these dresses, and those of the male fullers above described, may perhaps warrant i conjecture that there was some kind of livery, or prescribed dress, belonging to the establishment; or else the contents of the painter's colour-box must have been very limited. The wh.ole pier on which these paintings were found has been removed to the museum at Naples. In the peristyle was a large earthenware jar, which had been broken across the middle, and the pieces then sewn carefully and laboriously together with wire. The value of these vessels, therefore, cannot have been very small, though they were made of the most common clay. At the eastern end of the peristyle there was a pretty fountain, with a jet d'eau. The western end is occupied by four large vats in masonry, lined with stucco, about seven feet deep, which(seem to have received the water in succession, one from another. The island which lies eastward of the House of Fansa contains, besides the Fullonica, three houses, the discovery of which excited a great sensation, not so much for their extent, which is small compared with that of several others, but on account of the richness. and beauty, or singularity of their decorations. These have respectively received the names of the House 6f the Tragic Poet, and the Houses of the Great and Little Fountains; and in the map are numbered 25 and 27. We give a larger plan of this island. The House of the Tragic Poet was excavated towards the end of the year 1824, and excited...