Le pitture antiche d'Ercolano e contorni incise con qualche spiegazione. Vols. 2-5. First editions
Napoli: Nella Regia Stamperia, 1760-1767. Folio. 4 vols. 34 x 48cm. Contemporary qtr. calf, gilet edges. v. 2. (1760), v. 3. (1762), v. 4. (1765), v. 5. (1767)...OCLC Number: 319792079.. Fresh and very good..
Vol. II: [xiv], 339 [i.e. 219], [11] p., frontis. (port.), [60] pl. - Vol. III: [iv], xvii, [i], 339 [i.e. 219], [13] p., frontis. (port.), [60] pl. - Vol. IV: [iv], x, 368 [i.e. 228], [12] p., frontis. (port.), [70] pl. - Vol. V: [iv], x, 407 [i.e. 239], [1] p., frontis. (port), [84] pl. (1 folding)....These four volumes - published in 1760, 1762, 1765 and 1779 - are part of an eight-volume series describing the antiquities of Herculaneum. (The first volume has an added title-plate reading 'Le Antichità Di Ercolano Esposte'; while the 5fth - 8th volumes have half-titles reading, 'Delle Antichità Di Ercolano Tomo Quinto (-Ottavo)').
The notes give brief indications of find-spots (Resina, Portici, Civita (Pompei) and Gragnano) and find-dates, and helpful explanations of each piece of wall-painting, incorporating quotations from Latin and ancient Greek sources and bibliographic references; most notes also refer to the relevant entry in Baiardi's Catalogo Degli Antichi Monumenti (1754)....
The plates give a comprehensive account of Roman wall-painting of the first century, and had a great impact on contemporary Neoclassical designers.
Artist include: Francesco La Vega, draughtsman
Rocco Pozzi, engraver
Camillo Paderni, draughtsman
Filippo Morghen, engraver
Karl Jakob Weber
Gios. Liberati
Rocco Gioacchino d' Alcubierre
Ottavio Antonio Baiardi
Pierre Jacques Gaultier, engraver
Niccolo Vanni, draughtsman, engraver
Niccolo Billy, engraver
Giuseppe Antonio Aloja, engraver
Pietro Campana, engraver
Giovanni Elia Morghen, draughtsman
Francesco Cepparoli, engraver
Carlo Nolli, engraver
Niccolò Orazi, engraver
Miguel de Sorello, engraver
Luigi Vanvitelli, draughtsman
Secondo De Angelis, engraver
Vincenzo Campana, engraver
Ferdinando Strina, engraver
Francesco Sesone, engraver
Isidoro Frezza, engraver
Pasquale Carcani
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