POMPEIANA de William Gell (éd. de 1832)

Plate LXXI - Victory

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Plate LXXI is a figure of Victory, differing so materially from every thing of the kind as to be worthy of preservation. It seems not impossible that the genius of Rome may be intended, as the globe in her hand might signify. Had the painter possessed less talent and more knowledge, this globe might have been rendered interesting by a representation of the ocean and the continents ; but a few indistinct touches are all a good painter would condescend to leave us. The trophy in the left hand shows the goddess to be of Roman, and not of Grecian invention. There is in the house of the Dioscuri another figure of Victory, with her usual flying drapery, and with S C on her shield.