Twenty Plates Of The Antiquities Of Herculaneum: Selected from the Large Work, By T. Martyn, B. D. Prof. Bot. and J. Lettice, B. D. Fellow of Sidney-College, Cmbridge, To which is prefixed a short Description of each Plate, and the Original Colouring Of The Dancing Figures and Centaurs: The whole intended for the Use of Artists and their Disciples, and for the Ornament of the Houses and Cabinets of Persons of Taste
A 1773 English selection of twenty plates from the large work on the antiquities of Herculaneum, edited by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice of Cambridge, intended for artists and students as well as for collectors of taste. The plates reproduce Roman wall paintings as black-and-white engravings: dancing female figures in flowing drapery against dark grounds, and a centaur with a woman beside an architectural frame, with small roundels below. A designer might take their swirling drapery, elongated poses and framed panel layouts as models for ornament and figure composition.
