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"Cornicione (Sims) and Il giovane seduto é di and carnagione forte: ha pocca barba." (Fresco from Herculaneum/Fresco from Herculaneum) original copper engraving/copper engraving ca./approx.33x19cm (representation/image size) on handmade paper/laid paper (47x34cm) by Ferdinando Campana after Niccolo Vanni inscribed below the representation in the plate and with antique Unit of measurement of the "Palmo Napoletano e Palmo Romano" page 231 (Plate XLVII) from the IV. Volume of the rare eight-volume work by Ottavio Antonio Bayardi, Le Antichità di Ercolano esposte, Regia Stamperia Napoli 1765  

The fine sheet has some browning and foxing, especially at the edges, and is slightly wavy due to the paper.

The fine etching especially at its edges a little bit brown spotted and slightly wavy due to paper.

 100% original of the time. No reprint.

Guaranteed original print of high quality. No reprint, no facsimile. 

Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte is an eight-volume, richly illustrated work on the finds from the excavations of the ruins of Herculaneum in the Kingdom of Naples.

 Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte (Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed) is an eight-volume book richly-illustrated with copper engravings of the findings from excavating the ruins of Herculaneum in the Kingdom of Naples.

Here is a list of the individual volumes. Here a list often the volumes.

Volumes 1-4: Le picture antiche d'Ercolano e contorni incise con qualche spiegazione. (1757 – 1760 – 1762 and 1765)

Band/volume 5:   De' bronzi di Ercolano e contorni incisi con qualche spiegazione : Tomo Primo : Busti (1767)

Band/volume 6:   De' bronzi di Ercolano e contorni incisi con qualche spiegazione : Tomo Secondo. statue (1771)

volume 7: Le picture antiche d'Ercolano e contorni incise con qualche spiegazione. (1779)

Band/volume 8: Le lucerne ed i candelabri d'Ercolano e contorni: incise con qualche spiegazione ; Tomo Unico (1792)