A treatise on ancient painting, containing observations on the rise, progress, and decline of that art amongst the Greeks and Romans ...
Subtitle: to which are added some remarks on the peculiar genius, character, and talents of Raphael, Michael Angelo, Nicholas Poussin, and other celebrated modern masters; and the ... use they made of the ... remains of antiquity in painting as well as sculpture.  The whole illustrated ... with fifty pieces of ancient painting; discovered at different times in the ruins of old Rome, accurately engraved from drawings of Camillo Paderni ... lately done from the originals ...
By: By George Turnbull, LL.D.
Contributors: Paderni, Camillo, -approximately 1770
Publisher: Printed for the author; and sold by A. Millar
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Ancient Painting; Painting; History
Notes: The plates, with descriptive text, were published in 1744 under title: A curious collection of ancient paintings ... engraved from ... drawings, lately done after the originals, by one of the best hands at Rome ... (A 1741 edition is listed by Lowndes under slightly different title)