Recueil d'antiquités egyptiennes, etrusques, grecques et romaines

Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, Duchesne, Nicolas-Bonaventure, d. 1765, Desaint, Nicolas, 1731?-1771, Saillant, Charles, 1716-1786, Tilliard, Nicolas-Martin, 1723?-1773 · 1756 · A Paris : Chez Duchesne ... · 172 pictures

A multi-volume antiquarian catalogue of Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman objects compiled by the comte de Caylus and published in Paris from 1756 for collectors and scholars of ancient art. The engraved plates give outline drawings of vases, coins, gems, bronzes, relief fragments and painted figure scenes, often numbered and set against blank paper, useful for silhouettes, ornament borders, palmette motifs and profile heads.

Antiquities · Art, Ancient · Classical antiquities · Christian antiquities · Byzantine antiquities · Art, Byzantine · Art, Classical · Art, Early Christian · Art, Egyptian · Art, Etruscan · Art, Gallo-Roman · Art, Greek · Art, Roman · Archaeology

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