POMPEIANA de William Gell (éd. de 1832)

Plate LXXVI - Comic scene

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The words comic scene seem to apply to any species of drama. So many of the ancient comedies and tragedies are lost, that conjecture is useless as to the subject of the present scenic representation. The colouring of the woman's face, which is strongly tinged with green, might be intended to represent the effect of horror at some perpetrated crime. The shepherds of Polybus and Jocasta are perhaps the personages intended ; but this is a mere conjecture. The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles might be cited on the subject.