Title

Roman metalwork, (1898). Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Roman metalwork, (1898). Examples of ancient Roman items made of bronze: 'Fig 1: Fountain-figure, representing a drunken Faun. One of the bronze figures, found at Pompeii [Italy] (1880) and belonging to the most excellent works of this kind. Figs 2 and 3: Two lamps (lucerna), in the Museum at Naples. Figs 4 and 5: Great candelabrums, in the Collection of the Louvre at Paris. Figs 6 and 8: Great candelabrums in the Museum at Naples. Fig 7: Side-view of the head of the candelabrum Fig. 6 (magnified). Fig 9: Candelabrum-head, at Naples. Fig 10: Two-armed small candelabrum with figure of a Faun, at Naples. Fig 11: Bisellium, seat of honour for magistrates, beautifully profiled, in the Louvre at Paris. Figs 12 and 13. Tripods from Herculaneum, in the Museum at Naples. Figs 14 and 15. Little masks, being fragments of decorations, at Naples'. Plate 10 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [B.T. Batford, London, 1898]

Credit line

Photo12/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G33_327

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NA

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NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

58,6Mb (2,9Mb) / 12,1in x 18,8in / 3635 x 5631 (300dpi)

Keywords

city interior mask arts bronze art book color design decorative lighting Pompeii dress armour war lamp location century masks helmet inside lamps metalwork interior design literature concept mythology candelabra grotesque tripod warfare interior decoration Colour candelabrum 19th century Indoors faun Ancient Roman Ancient Rome nineteenth century Ancient city The Print Collector lithograph chromolithograph Unknown Dolmetsch Pompeian BT Batsford E. H Historic Styles of Ornament B. T. Batsford Batsford B. T. BT B T B.T. B.T. Batsford B T Batsford H. Dolmetsch Heinrich Dolmetsch H. Heinrich H Dolmetsch E. Hochdanz Hochdanz E Hochdanz Hochd chromolithograph lithograph