Delle antichità di Ercolano
Delle antichità di Ercolano is a 1757 Neapolitan publication printed by the Regia stamperia in Naples, produced by Ottavio Antonio Baiardi and Pasquale Carcani to record antiquities excavated at Herculaneum for scholars and collectors. The engraved plates show Roman wall paintings of small garden landscapes, with miniature temples, shrines, rocky outcrops, boats on water, and colonnaded buildings framed in ornamental borders. A designer could take from them the compact layouts of framed pictorial panels and the fine hatched line work used for architecture and landscape.
