Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples (1754)
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 · London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ... · leaf 112
The figure ofAchilles has more fymmetry, and theoutlines are more flowing ; becaufe,without doubt, copied from fomegood ftatue ; for the attitude givesus reafon to fuppofe that was thecafe. However, the figure is not ill-painted ; the femi-tints make a prettyfoft gradation from the light to… … [67] and touches his forehead with hisfinger. Behind him appears a wo-man, who embraces him with ,herright arm; and feems to hold himwith her left hand. In the middleof the piftiire forwards is a man feat-ed with his back to the fpedators,and holding a paper in his lefthand. At his right, you fee…
