Plate LIV probably represents a scene in some well-know and popular comedy, though there seems nothing so characteristic as to enable us, at this distance of time, to point out exactly to what it alludes. The principal actor in the mask would seem to be what Italians now call a buffo. This is in the house of the Fountain of Shells.

Plate LV may represent a scene or it might be simply the portrait of a really existing dwarf leading a monkey. The animal is dressed ; but there is little worthy of remark, except that it would seen as if the ancients possessed everything as well as ourselves. This is in the House of the Dioscuri.