Pompeiana, Part III. Contains some beautiful specimens of the pictorial
skill of the ancients; which exhibit the graceful lines of their compositions the chaste and classic simplicity of their drawing, and the elegance of their fancy. A. representation of a scene in one of their comedies, the actors in which wear the conch-mouthed masks, is curious and beautiful. The ad- herence to nature in their art, which yet displays its resources to ad- vantage, is admirable. The single figures of females, painted in the cen- tre of the panels in some of their apartments, are remarkable for the light airiness of form and attitude, which the exquisite beauty of the drawing and the gracefully floating folds of the drapery render unique. Not COSWAY nor even LAWRENCE have approached the refinement of style in their single figures.
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