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A guide to classical learning: or, Polymetis abridged. Containing, I. By Way of Introduction, the Characters of the Latin Poets and their Works. The Rise, Growth, and Fall of the polite Arts among the Romans. The Usefulness of Antiques towards explaining the Classics a true Idea of the Allegories of the Antients, and of their whole Scheme of Machinery, or Interposition of the Gods; with Remarks on the Defects of our best Allegorists and Artists for Want of such an Idea. II. An Inquiry concerning the the Agreement between Works of the Roman Poets and the Remains of the antient Artists, in order to illustrate them mutually from one another. Being a work absolutely necessary, not only for the right Understanding of the Classics, but also for forming in young Minds a true Taste for the Beauties of Poetry, Sculpture, and Painting. The third edition illustrated with Twenty-Eight Prints from original Antiques, and more particularly adapted to the Use of Schools and Academies. By N. Tindal, Translator of Rapin.
Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Pictures
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A marble tablet sculpted in relief with trophies and ornaments illustrating the magnificence of the ancient Romans. Etching by G.B. Piranesi, 1761.
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 1720-1778.Date: 1761Reference: 568205i- Pictures
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Antiquities: musicians and the suffering Job painted on the back of a door; Roman coins; a Roman inscribed stone; and the plant Sweet gale. Engraving, 1786.
Date: 1786Reference: 5445i- Pictures
Antinoüs, or Mercury. Etching by S.F. Ravenet after R. Dalton, 1745.
Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.Date: 12 Nov.r 1745Reference: 663741i- Pictures
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Mars [Ares] and Venus [Aphrodite]. Engraving by D. Marchetti after G. Tognoli after A. Canova.
Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 11593i- Pictures
Cupid with two maenads. Stipple engraving by G. Shepheard, 1796, after A. Kauffmann.
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807.Date: 12th May, 1796Reference: 2853700i- Books
Enlightened princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the shaping of the modern world / edited by Joanna Marschner, with the assistance of David Bindman and Lisa L. Ford ; with essays by Glenn Adamson, A. Cassandra Albinson, Robyn Asleson, Wolf Burchard, Donald Burrows, Lisa L. Ford, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, Florence Grant, Tyler Griffith, Mark Hallett, Craig Ashley Hanson, Samantha Howard, Roisin Inglesby, Emma Jay, Berta Joncus, Kathryn Jones, Mark Laird, Ben Marsh, Joanna Marschner, Amy Meyers, Clarissa Campbell Orr, Frank Prochaska, Lee Prosser, Aileen Ribeiro, Joseph Roach, Jane Roberts, Cyntha E. Roman, Matthew Storey, John Styles.
Date: 2017- Books
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Wanderings in the Roman Campagna / by Rodolfo Lanciani.
Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo, 1847-1929.Date: 1909- Books
History of loot and stolen art from antiquity until the present day / Ivan Lindsay.
Lindsay, Ivan, 1962-Date: 2013- Pictures
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The god Mercury, with Venus in the background, tries to teach Cupid to read. Engraving by R. Gaillard, 1744, after Van-Loo le pere.
Vanloo, le pere.Date: 1744Reference: 29091i- Pictures
Minerva with a trophy. Engraving by A. Campanella after A. von Maron, 1781.
Maron, Anton von, 1733-1808.Date: 1786Reference: 662828iPart of: Wall paintings from the Villa Negroni (Montalto), Rome- Pictures
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Four figures contemplate the inscription on a tomb in Arcadia. Etching by Etienne Picart after Nicolas Poussin, 1653.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Reference: 34797i- Pictures
A man playing the lute. Etching by J. Hauck after A.J. von Prenner after B. Strozzi.
Strozzi, Bernardo, 1581-1644.Date: [between 1728 and 1733]Reference: 2535359iPart of: Theatrum artis pictoriæ, quo tabulæ depictæ quæ in Cæsarea Vindobonensi Pinacotheca servantur.- Pictures
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Danae. Engraving by G. Duchange after P. de' Pietri after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
Correggio, 1489?-1534.Date: [1722]Reference: 38188i- Pictures
Venus and nymphs bathing. Colour etching by F. Rosaspina after G.F.M. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.
Parmigianino, 1503-1540.Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]Reference: 2489260i- Pictures
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Venus and Adonis. Engraving by P.M. Vitali after A. von Maron, 1783.
Maron, Anton von, 1733-1808.Date: 1783Reference: 662824iPart of: Wall paintings from the Villa Negroni (Montalto), Rome- Books
L'arte ieratica di Esculapio : introduzione alla vera medicina naturale occidentale / L.M.A. Viola.
Viola, L. M. A.Date: 2002- Books
Roman bodies : antiquity to the eighteenth century / edited by Andrew Hopkins and Maria Wyke.
Date: 2005- Books
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Outlines of the ancient history of medicine ; being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabians / By D.M. Moir.
Moir, D. M. (David Macbeth), 1798-1851.Date: 1931 [i. e. 1831]- Books
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Outlines of the ancient history of medicine : being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabians / by D.M. Moir.
Date: [1831]- Books
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Outlines of the ancient history of medicine ; being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabians / By D.M. Moir.
Moir, D. M. (David Macbeth), 1798-1851.Date: 1931 (sic) [i.e.1831]- Pictures
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Venus visits Aesculapius to ask him to remove a thorn from her foot. Colour process print after Sir E.J. Poynter.
Poynter, Edward John, 1836-1919.Reference: 11568i- Pictures
Vertumnus disguised as an old woman seduces Pomona. Engraving by H. Guttenberg after G. Flinck.
Flinck, Govaert, 1615-1660.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 2863318iPart of: Galerie des peintres flamands, hollandais et allemands de Le Brun.- Pictures
An episode in 'Gerusalemme liberata': the knights Carlo and Ubaldo meet Good Fortune who offers to take them in her boat to the Fortunate Islands, in order to retrieve Rinaldo from the palace of Armida. Etching by P.C. Canot, 1744, after Claude Lorraine.
Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.Date: May 1744Reference: 3055839i- Books
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Tratado del arte de hilar, devanar, doblar, y torcer las sedas, segun el metodo de Mr. Vaucanson. Con algunas adiciones, y correcciones á él. Principio, y progresos de la fábrica de vinalesa, en el reyno de Valencia, establecida baxo la proteccion de S.M / Por don Josef Lapayese.
Lapayese, Josef.Date: 1779