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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 367

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epifi. vi. Therewere always annexed to magnificent palaces fylvae, ambulationefque laxiores :*as Vitruvius tells us, vi. 8. See alfo v. 2. and 9. [6[] One has fuppofed that this piclure represents a Scena comka. See Vitruwius3v. S. and the rather, becaufe the painter feems to have attempted through… … T. S JLa/n bornfai fp. [ ] PLATE XLIV. pHE firft pi&ure [i] which is engraved in this plate,JL though no lefs extravagant than the foregoing ones, isnot without its beauty. It feems deligned to reprefent a tholus[2], veftibulum [3], or fome fuch building [4] ; and the quad-rangular building in…

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