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 173
well known that the moll ancient imageswere of wood (Paufanias, viii. 16. Pliny, xxxiv. 7.), and ufed to be painted (Plu-tarch in Rom.) like our modern wooden, or pafte-board ftatues. In Paufanias, iii.16. we read of aprieftefs of the Leucippides, who made for one of the two ftatuesa new face… … [ 55 ] PLATE XII. W IF the picture preceding be a reprefentation of Oreftes dif-covered by his fifter, the piece now before us will be acontinuation of it [2], and the explanation of one will con-duce to the illuftration of the other. Euripides, who in hisIphigenia in Tauris [3] has furnifhed us…
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