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The antiquities of Herculaneum (1773)

Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764, Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825, Lettice, John, 1737-1832, Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780, Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774, Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795, Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy) · London : Printed for S. Leacroft ... · leaf 155

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curs. And, asin almoft all the edifices, the walls were found covered with paintings, reprefentingarchitecture, grotefques, and the like; and fometimes there were fingle figures, orgroups, which had no other connection with each other than that of fymmetry, andthe ornament of the walls : fo we may… … [ 41 3 PLATE X.W EVERY one at firft fight will imagine he underftands allthat is reprefented in this painting [2] : but if he wouldexamine the whole minutely, and feparate the parts from eachother, he will perhaps find the piece exhibited here to differ fowidely from common tradition, as to make it…

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