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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 12819849, member: 8267"]Here are the lamps in their original context in <font size="4"><i>Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte</i> (courtesy of the Internet Archive) -</font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]556676[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008412310/page/68/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008412310/page/68/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008412310/page/68/mode/2up</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]556677[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008412310/page/214/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008412310/page/214/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008412310/page/214/mode/2up</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In both cases, the images have been reoriented from horizontal pairs to vertical. They have also been reversed/flipped. This usually indicates that they have been copied from the original images as printed (not the original plates), and become reversed in the secondary printing process.</p><p><br /></p><p>So you will be looking for some later reprint version of <i>Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte</i>, possibly the one [USER=33]@Figtree3[/USER] found.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 12819849, member: 8267"]Here are the lamps in their original context in [SIZE=4][I]Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte[/I] (courtesy of the Internet Archive) -[/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]556676[/ATTACH] [URL]https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008412310/page/68/mode/2up[/URL] [ATTACH=full]556677[/ATTACH] [URL]https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008412310/page/214/mode/2up[/URL] In both cases, the images have been reoriented from horizontal pairs to vertical. They have also been reversed/flipped. This usually indicates that they have been copied from the original images as printed (not the original plates), and become reversed in the secondary printing process. So you will be looking for some later reprint version of [I]Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte[/I], possibly the one [USER=33]@Figtree3[/USER] found.[/QUOTE]
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