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 229
others, was crufted withi marble. I had almoft f3rgot to ob--\ ferve, that the pilafters jut out from the [ M4 Jthe wall, about two thirds of theirbreadth. There is nothing prcfervedin the infide worthy of notice, andit is fo difficult of accefs, that one isobliged to be carried thither acrofsthe… … Jiellic^-^ Tec. [ ^45 ] O F T H E T E iM P L E of MERCURY. TH^ temple of Mercury, as ^dl^^^^^^as the preceding, is partlyfunk in the mariLes, and you muftbe carried thither before you fee theinfide, which, however, yields muchmore fatisfadlion than the laft. It isa kind of rotundo, with an…
