Antiquities of Heculaneum

'Grandi quanto gl'Originali'. Statuettes from Herculaneum. From 'Le Antichita di Ercolano' (The Antiquities of Heculaneum), which was a collection of images of archeological finds from the excavations at the Roman city of Herculaneum. It was published over a 40 year period from 1744 to 1792 as the excavations continued. Many different artists and archeologists of the day worked on it. Giovanni Morghen was an Italian engraver, the son of a lace merchant of Montpellier of German origin, who settled at Florence.