Notebook with Views of the Excavations at Herculaneum and of Other Italian Cities

1750–51
Not on view

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Object Information
  • Title: Notebook with Views of the Excavations at Herculaneum and of Other Italian Cities
  • Artist: Jérôme Charles Bellicard (French, Paris 1726–1786 Paris)
  • Date: 1750–51
  • Medium: Notebook of 55 pages on 29 leaves. Last leaf is hinged onto blank leaf. Two leaves are numbered 36 bis and 37 bis (in addition to pages 36, 37). Four leaves are missing between pages 1 and 2; one leaf is missing between pages 7 and 8; two leaves are missing between pages 23 and 24; two leaves are missing between pages 39 and 40; two leaves are missing between pages 51 and 52. Late-eighteenth-century or early-nineteenth-century sprinkled leather binding with marbleized endpapers.
  • Dimensions: Loose front cover: 8 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (21.9 x 16.2 cm)
    Leaves: 8 1/4 x 6 in. (20.9 x 15.1 cm)
  • Classifications: Albums, Drawings
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1940
  • Object Number: 40.59.6
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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