First descriptions of the excavations of the Herculaneum
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This page features a chronology of the first descriptions (some including engravings) of the excavations of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae.
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Earliest descriptions
- News of the memorable discovery of the ancient city of Herculaneum near Naples (Notizie del memorabile scoprimento dell'antica città di Ercolano vicina a Napoli) by Anton Francesco Gori (1748)
- Description of the first discoveries of the ancient city of Herculaneum found near Portici (Descrizione delle prime scoperte dell'antica città di Ercolano ritrovata vicino a Portici) by Marcello Venuti was published by Lorenzo Baseggio in Venice in 1749
- Memoirs concerning Herculaneum, the subterranean city, lately discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius by William Fordyce (1750)
- Letters on the pictures of Herculaneum (Lettres sur les peintures d'Herculaneum) and Observations upon the Antiquities of the Town of Herculaneum (Observations), both by Charles Nicolas Cochin, were published by Jombert in Paris, respectively in 1751 and 1754
- Collection of Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities (Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, grecques et romaines) by Anne Claude Philippe, count of Caylus, was published in Paris between 1752 and 1767.
- Le Antichità di Ercolano (Les Antiquités d’Herculanum) de Francesco Valleta, publiées en 1757 sous le patronage de Charles III, exposent enfin aux amateurs impatients des copies des peintures, sous forme de gravures, que l'ambassadeur de France à Naples communique au directeur de l'Académie de France à Rome, puis à Paris.
- l'Encyclopédie produit en 1758 un article enthousiaste de quatre pages sur Herculanum (Louis de Jaucourt, Herculanum, L'Encyclopédie, tome VIII, pp 150 - 154).
- Les Antiquités d'Herculaneum, ou les plus belles Peintures antiques, et les Marbes, Bronzes, Meubles, etc. etc. Trouvés dans les excavations d'Herculaneum, Stabia et Pompeia, avec leurs explications en françois. 9 vols. Paris, 1780. Text by Pierre Sylvain Maréchal, engravings by Francois-Anne David
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