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Pencil sketch of Pompeii ruins with goats, a robed figure, a tall cypress and distant mountains.

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This pencil and brown ink drawing shows the ruins of classical architecture, including arches, columns and a low wall, set in a rural landscape. A robed figure herds a small flock of goats along a path past a tall cypress, with distant mountains and trees behind. The work is catalogued as Streets of the Tombs, Pompeii by Samuel Palmer.

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