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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 72

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h is a compartment painted withthree colours ; the lozenges beingred, the bands grey, and the circlesof a darker grey, raifed with a ftrongertint, in order to deepen the fhades.Divers other walls v/erc likewife paint-ed grey, with garlands carried by birds.Every thing of this fort worth no-tice had… … J^ellicard. Fee [47] O F T H E UTENSILS AND OTHER CURIOSITIES FOUND IN THE City of H E RCULANEUM. IN the colledion of obfervationswhich I prefent to the publick,I have net limited myfclf to my re-marks upon architedlure, which ismore immediately my profeffion, be-caufe I thought it my duty at…

Art, Greco-Roman · Vesuvius (Italy) · Herculaneum (Extinct city)

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