The Days’ Doings November 12th 1870

Volume 1. Number 16 This weeks cover is an engraving after a painting called “Interieur Pompeien” by Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans, a Belgian artist who was living in Naples in the mid 19th century and was inspired by the excavations in Pompeii to paint in what is known as Neo-Pompeian style. This picture may have been celebrated