Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790.

Description

1. vii, 236 p., [42] leaves of plates : ill. (part fold.); 21 cm.

Subject

1. Herculaneum (Extinct city)
2. Vesuvius (Italy)
3. Art, Greco-Roman

Call number

1. MTY (Bellicard, J. C. Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Heculaneum)

Note

1. Translated from the French.
2. The date of publication is apparently wrong, as the 1st French ed. was published in 1754.
3. The book includes several articles on Herculaneum and Mount Vesuvius by different writers. The 2d section, on the paintings and sculpture found in Herculaneum, was written by C. N. Cochin, jr.

Author

1. Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786.

Title

1. Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Heculaneum : 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 / by Mr. Bellicard ; enriched with forty-two plates, designed and engraved by the author.

Imprint

1. London : Wilson and Durham, 1753 [1754?]

Added author

1. Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790.

LCCN

1. 09022413

Research call number

1. MTY (Bellicard, J. C. Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Heculaneum)