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 125
A I N I N G FIGURES of a middling Size. ^1 ^HERE are fcveral pidures^ compofed of figures of halfthe natural fize, or lefs; the greateftpart of which are indifferent: thoughthe heads are generally the beft partsof them, and difcover fomething ofa greater charader, which favours ofwhat we call the… … i>/./- BelU.^ar-d.Fcc [ 75 ]There is befides, a pidure of Ariadneforfaken. The figures, which are abouta foot high, are well coloured, cor-reftly drawn, and have a good ef- Among other pieces found atHerculaneum, were two pidures,curious on account of the fub-jed they reprefent; namely,…
