Plan of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli
Date
1757
Creator
James Mynde (1710, British) , Printmaker
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p64
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 299mm
width (page): 231mm
width (page): 231mm
Subject
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Description
Overview of the Roman Macellum (marketplace) of Pozzuoli, Italy, considered to be the Temple of Serapis in the 18th century and visited by Sir John Soane, Sir William Hamilton and other English antiquaries. Has a scale of feet below the main drawing. Signed lower right, 'J Mynde delin.' (James Mynde, active 1740-1770).
Printed as plate 2 from the paper 'An account of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli in the Kingdom of Naples...' by John NIxon (d. 1777), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 50 (1757-58), pp. 166-74.
Printed as plate 2 from the paper 'An account of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli in the Kingdom of Naples...' by John NIxon (d. 1777), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 50 (1757-58), pp. 166-74.
Transcription
A scale of feet J. Mynde delin.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Plate 2 from John Nixon, 'An account of the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli in the Kingdom of Naples', Phil. Trans., vol. 50 (1757-58), pp. 166-74.
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