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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 76

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n thofe curiofi-ties which may have an affinity withthe arts, and juft name the reft,that nothing remarkable may beomitted. The temples which have been dif^covered adjoining to the Forum, aswell as feveral private houfes, haveenriched the cabinet of the king ofthe Two Sicilies at Portici, with… … ^BelEcardTFec [49] prefented fome vafes and lamps, ofwhich a great number were found.Plate XX. exhibits the defign of anearthen lamp, A B, reprcfenting afubjeft very different from thofe whichare on the copper lamps taken fromthe fame place; the indecent figuresof which give reafon to believe,…

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