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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 60

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dwith ftucco, in the fame mannerthat ftill prevails throughout allItaly. The plan of thefe buildings wascommunicated to me, together withthat of the Theatre, of which I havealready fpoken, but the dimenfionsfeemed to me to be fo uncertain, thatI Will no longer infift upon the fub-je6l.—-This is not… … Bcllicard.Tec atloButlII tl aftI « t( P gb it I 39 ] monument to the publick, there-by conveying a juft idea of an anti-quityj which perhaps no longerexifts. D 4 OF [ 40 ] <D F T H E TOMBS FOUND AT HERCULANEUM, AFTER having made the dif-coveries which I have already-mentioned, the workmen w^ith…

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