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Early c.18th engraving from the series, Antiquities D’Herculanum, illustrating the most beautiful ancient paintings, and marbles, bronzes and furniture found in excavations of Herculaneum, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 … Read Full Description
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Early c.18th engraving from the series, Antiquities D’Herculanum, illustrating the most beautiful ancient paintings, and marbles, bronzes and furniture found in excavations of Herculaneum, Italy.
Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. Like the nearby city of Pompeii, Herculaneum is famous as one of the few ancient cities to be preserved nearly intact, as the ash that blanketed the town protected it against looting and the elements. Although less known than Pompeii today, it was the first and, for a long time, the only discovered Vesuvian city (in 1709). Pompeii was revealed in 1748 and identified in 1763. The discovery of the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii gave new impetus to the study of archeology.
Collections:
Royal Collection Trust UK: RCIN 1145707
State Library New South Wales: B/DQ937.7A/7
University of Oxford: ALMA : 990189340000107026
Francois Anne David (1741 - 1824)
French engraver born in Paris in 1741, where he lived and worked all his life. He was a pupil of Le Bas, and became engraver to the King of Prussia. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Painting in Berlin, as well as of the Academy of Sciences and Letters at Rouen. He died in Paris in 1824.
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