Title page with illustration from the 26-page pamphlet "pollice verso": to the lovers of truth in classic art, this is most respectfully addressed published in paris in 1879, reprinting evidence for and against the accuracy of the use of the thumbs-down gesture by spectators in the ancient roman colosseum in the painting pollice verso (1872) by jean-léon gérôme, including a letter dated 8 december, 1878 from gérôme himself. Date: 1879.
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