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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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at theletter of the little genius contained an anfwer threatening him with difmiffion anddifdain. It is remarkable, however, with what concern and anxiety Polyphemusftretches forth his hand to take the billet; and a kind of penfive melancholy is dis-cernible on his countenance. (14) Catalogue, n. 256, 235, and 232. bottom 46 PLATE X. bottom of this plate, that which is in the middle deferves fomeattention (15). £15) It reprefents a little vehicle drawn by two fwans, and guidedby a little Cu-pid ; its form is not unlike the fliell in which Venus is faid to have been conceived ;and which fhe made ufe of to carry her on the water. Although in general they feign her car to have been drawn by doves, Sappho hasfurniflied it with fparrows. And Ovid, Met. x. 717, 7 18, with fzva?2s. Ve£la levi curru medias Cytherea per auras Cypron olorinis nondum pervenerat alis.Upon a gem in Augujiin. p. ii. tab. 59, the car of Venus is reprefented as drawnby dolphinsy and driven by the god of love. PLATE
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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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