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 128
d terminates behind,in an arcade drawn fymmetrically :there being on each fide a fphinx anda palm tree. The other picture reprefents near-ly the fame fubjcct; only inftead ofone there are two men by the altar,bending downwards; though I couldnot diftinguifh their adion : for thepidures are no more… … JieIIzi:ard.J!e. [ 77 ] a-moor, dancing with gefticulations.Thefe two pieces are miferably exe-cuted ; the perfpedlive is falfe whenviewed from above and without di-minution, nearly in the fame taftewith that which we call militaryperfpedive. P I C- [78] PICTURES OF A N I M A L S. t I ^HEY have…
