Plate LVIII - Picture

Plate LVIII is that picture which is seen nearest to the spectator on the right side of the fountain in plate LVI. It is, in shape, much like the last, but, as its angular form above was of no consequence, it is represented flat, in order to bring it within the limits of the plate.

We have here a farm or country house, with its usual accompaniments of domestic animais, and the yoke for the oxen on the left. That species of tree or palm, which grows out of the opening of a shed, is peculiar to this picture.

The figures are more defined than usual, and seem as if they must have been intended to represent some known event in history, or in private life. The return of the shepherd of King Polybus to his wife Peribaea, after finding the infant Oedipus suspended to the tree on Mount Cithaeron, might possibly be intended.