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Identifier: antiquitiesofher00baia (find matches)
Title: The antiquities of Herculaneum
Year: 1773 (1770s)
Authors: Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764 Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825 Lettice, John, 1737-1832 Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780 Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810 Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795 Accademia ercolanese di archeologia (Naples, Italy)
Subjects: Art, Roman
Publisher: London : Printed for S. Leacroft ...
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long portico fupported by a great number of columns,and two fhitues before it upon their pedeftals, merits a particu-lar attention ( 1 3). Size, fifty inches by thirty. The firjl (14.) of the three remaining pieces in this plate re-prefents two birds, of a green colour with red breads. The fecond\\$\ has figs, grapes, and other fruit. And the third (i 6) a partridge pecking a plant, and anotherbird upon the point of feizing an infed : the back-ground ofthefe is black. (12) So many towers feem to be here reprefented in order to (how the ufe whichWhs made of them ; that is, to announce the approach of the enemy, and to givenotice of it by means of lighted torches: indeed thefe towers were from hence call-ed by the Greeks ppyx)uptut and fuch lights are named by Pliny, ignes praenunciativi. (13) It feems to be either a praetorium, or a magnificent cou-ntry-houfe. Butupon this fubject we (hall fpeak hereafter. (14) Catalogue, n. 697. (15) Catalogue, n. 696. £103 Catalogue, n. 697. PLATE 1
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( *93 ) PLATE XLVII.M TH E pictures which are engraved in this plate do notfeem to require any explanation. What is here rep re-fented is fo clear, that it may be eafily underftood at firft fight.If any one however would confider them with a more attentiveeye, he cannot but admire the tafte and fancy of the painter. In the firft (2) we fee a parrot executed with muchgrace and beauty, drawing a little car (4), and guided by a (1) Catalogue, n. 304. (2) It was found October 10th, 1745, in the fouterrains of Refina. (3) Pliny, x. 42. thus defcribes thefe birds: Super omnia humanas voces rcd-<s dunt Pfittaci et quidem fermocinantes. India avem hanc mittit: Pfittacen vacant, viridem toto corpore, torque tantum miniato in cervice diftinclam. Such exactlyis that which is here painted. The ancients do not feem to have been acquaintedwith any other fpecies of parrot befides the Indian, fincewe find that this bird wasconftantly called Indian by Ctcjzas, Arijlotlc, Aelian, Pcmfanias, and othe

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Baiardi, Ottavio Antonio, 1694-1764; Martyn, Thomas, 1735-1825; Lettice, John, 1737-1832; Bannerman, Alexander, fl. 1730-1780; Lamborn, Peter Spendelowe, 1722-1774; Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810; Leacroft, S. (Samuel), -1795;

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