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3557. SPECIMEN of the ancient sculpture selected from different collections in Great Britain, by the society of dilettanti, London, trés gr. in fol., fig., vol. 1.
Questa è la più bella e sontuosa opera finora pubblicata dagli inglesi in materia di antichità da loro ben conservate, ove si illustrano dottamente opere di scultura in marmo e in bronzo inedite. Il lusso tipografico è all’estremo e le tavole in numero di 75 sono anche troppo finamente intagliate.
Questa è la più bella e sontuosa opera finora pubblicata dagli inglesi in materia di antichità da loro ben conservate, ove si illustrano dottamente opere di scultura in marmo e in bronzo inedite. Il lusso tipografico è all’estremo e le tavole in numero di 75 sono anche troppo finamente intagliate.
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Specimens of antient sculpture : Ægyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman / selected from different collections in Great Britain by the Society of Dilettanti.

Publication date(s):
1809-1835 and 1809
Other title(s):
Specimens of antient sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman
Imprint:
London : Printed by T. Bensley for T. Payne, and J. White and Co
Contents:
With appendix to v. 2: An inquiry into the symbolical language of ancient art and mythology / by R.P. Knight, 1818, reprinted by the Society of Dilettanti. -- London : printed by W. Nicol for Payne and Foss, 1835 -- 80 p.
Language:
English
Cicognara number:
3557
Note(s):
  • Vol. 2 published by Payne and Foss.
  • The author of the text of v. 1 is identified in the introduction to v. 2 as R.P. Payne, whose An inquiry into the symbolical language of ancient art and mythology is reprinted as an appendix with its own t.p. in v. 2, with [4], 83, [1] p. which includes the index to v. 2.
  • Plates are "Published by T. Payne and J. White."
  • Many of the 75 plates in v. 1 and the 58 in v. 2 were drawn and engraved by J. Agar.
Related name(s):
Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824, Agar, John Samuel, approximately 1770-approximately 1835, Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824. Inquiry into the symbolical language of ancient art and mythology., and Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Subject:
Sculpture, Ancient
DCL number:
fck