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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 69

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a-tion at prefent; for as I have alreadyobferved, they clear one place, andfill up another : fo that every fixmonths it puts on a new appear-ance. In the coiirfe of this fubterraneanexcurfion, we defcended into feveralhoufes, fome of ordinary conftruc-tion, and others more confiderable.When the… … [ 45 ] meats, as reprefented in the defign A,at the top of plate XIX. The filets, pi^texix,together with the great and littlebands were of marble of differentcolours. Some of them were form-ed in triangles, black and white, thefummits of which united in the famepoint. The middle of the compart-ment…

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