EditorialArchitectural painting of an Ionic portico, with a cornice decorated with dolphins and tritons, and an entablature with vase. Perhaps a Coenaculum, the upper room on a country house. Vignette below shows a parrot pulling a cricket in a chariot. Copperp...
EditorialCalliope, muse of epic poetry, holding a scroll and wearing a wreath of ivy. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialStatue of the god Bacchus, depicted as a graceful youth with long hair in ringlets. He holds a vase and long thrysus covered in fronds of ivy. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.
EditorialAn illustration of a road or path. Le Antichita? romane, opera di Giambatista Piranes, etc. Roma, 1756. Source: 744.f.2 plate 7 no.284. Language: Italian.