# # Identification: # # * Title: ??? # * Page: f78r = MG (Rene) = p151 (Stolfi) # * Folio: f78 # * Panels: f78r # * Bifolio: bM4 = f78+f81 # * Quire: M (Rene) = XIII (Beinecke) # # Newbold plate V, Kraus XXIX, Kraus Autobiog p220 # Color reproduction in Frank Smythe's book [1]. # # Attributes: # # * Language: B (Currier) # * Hand: 2 (Currier) # * Subsets: B (Rene), bio (Stolfi) # * Subject: biological # * Colors: b,red,green (Reeds), red(openings),blue(flow,some_bubbles),green(pools) (Rene) # # Description: # # The page contains a block of text (unit µ{P}), apparently consisting # of two paragraphs with 24.5 and 15.9 lines. The second # paragraph begins with an EVA
with extra-wide "head", decorated
# by four sets of three vertical pen strokes.
#
# An illustration takes up the top margin and the rightmost 1/4 of
# the page, extending to the midline in some places.
#
# At the top corners of the panel, right against the edges, are two
# objects that look like parasols. Each parasol is topped by a
# short spike that ends with a ball, and consists of some
# 20 "petals" with round tips. Nestled under each parasol is a
# hemispherical "bunch of grapes" (which could be the tips of
# many other "petals" like the ones that make up the parasol.
#
# From the bottom of each "bunch of grapes" there issues a stream of
# liquid, represented by three or four parallel wiggly lines. The
# streams pass through a succession of diconnected "pipes", each
# being a hollow cylinder with thick wall, flat edge at the top, and
# a ring or band around the bottom edge, decorated by three or four
# longitudinal lines of dots. The stream issuing from the top left
# "parasol" runs through four "pipes" as it runs across the top
# margin. The stream from the right parasol goes through one "pipe".
#
# Then the two streams merge just before entering another "pipe" and
# a "funnel". The latter is similar to a "pipe" except that it is
# somewhat narower at the bottom, ends with a thick flange instead
# of just a band, and the three dotted lines run transversely rather
# than longitudinally.
#
# The merged stream pours into a roundish "pool", full of "water"
# (some liquid) up to about a foot below the rim. The pool sides are
# smooth and vertical. There is a narrow band around the edge of the
# pool, decorated with alternating dots and groups of three
# trasversal strokes.
#
# Inside the pool are seven naked women or "nymphs". Four are in the
# distal (top) half of the pond, seemingly sitting on the water's
# surface, one of them facing right, the other three facing left.
# Three more nymphs are in the proximal (bottom) half, lying down on
# the water, all with the head to the left. The water was painted
# with a dark opaque green, apparently with a broad pen-like
# instrument (as opposed to a brush), clearly after the outlines
# were drawn (apparently with the same ink as the text).
#
# All nymphs have their legs partly hidden by the water, and have
# lighter green brush strokes on their tighs. The top left nymph
# wears a narrow headband; the two nymphs to her right wear wider
# headbands, which could be hats or hairdos.
#
# A narrow stream of water runs off the proximal right end of the pool,
# through a wavy channel, down the right mergin, and ends in a second
# pool. This pool is like the first one, except that the border around
# it is narrower and undecorated.
#
# Inside the second pool are eight "nymphs", standing knee-deep in
# dark-colored water, facing to the left. Three are in the distal
# half of the pond, five in the proximal half. The leftmost nymph
# has her hand on what looks like a round shelf, attached to the
# pond's wall, at water level; there may be objects on top of the
# shelf. Some nymphs mahe be wearing bath caps, or cap-like
# hairdos.
#
# Every nymph (in both ponds) has one hand on or near her hip or
# buttock, and the other arm stretched forwards and down, pointing
# or touching a neighboring nymph. Most if not all the nymphs have
# red accent spots on their cheeks and (possibly) on their nipples.
# Where visible, their hair is wavy and uncolored hair, sometimes
# short, sometimes long.
#
# There are 6 or 7 labels (unit µ{X}) on several parts of the figure.
# The two parasols are