Publication-dates are carried by all plates – ranging from Mar. 1 1817 to Sep. 1 1819. The work was published serially. After travelling ...
Continue Reading →Exceptionally comprehensive, easy-to-use guide surveys the evolution of historic ornament in architecture and the applied arts — from primitive ornaments of Oceania, Egypt, ...
Continue Reading →The Baths of the Romans Explained and Illustrated: with the restorations of Palladio corrected and improved, to which is prefixed, an introductory preface, ...
Continue Reading →No publication-date appears on the title page, but the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that the book was published in 1842 (although ...
Continue Reading →The work describes the villa – or rather, fortress-palace – which the Emperor Diocletian built at Split (the ancient Aspalathos) on his abdication ...
Continue Reading →Wood had visited the Greek islands, Syria and Egypt in 1742-3. In 1749 he was in Rome joining forces with John Bouverie, James ...
Continue Reading →Earlier dates of 1726 or 1727 appear on five head- and tail-pieces. Castell’s study concentrates on two villas described in some detail in ...
Continue Reading →Containing a description and views of the remaining antiquities, with the Ancient and Modern History, inscriptions and some observations on the Ancient Doric ...
Continue Reading →Excerpt from The Architectural Antiquities of Rome, Vol. 1: These Columns differ only three inches in height, but vary considerably in their proportions, ...
Continue Reading →All plates in “Etchings Representing The Best Examples Of Ancient Ornamental Architecture Drawn From The Originals In Rome And Other Parts Of Italy ...
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