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Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy, "Le Jupiter Olympien, ou l'Art de la Sculpture Antique considéré sous un nouveau point de vue; ouvrage qui comprend un essai sur le gout de la sculpture polychrome, l'analyse explicative de la toreutique, et l'histoire de la statuaire en or et ivoire chez les Grecs et les Romains, avec la Restitution des principaux Monuments de cet Art et la Démonstration pratique out le Renouvellement de ses Procédés méchaniques" (Paris, Bure Frères) 1815; containing a hand-coloured frontispiece depicting the statue of Jupiter on his throne, 31 full-size plates numbered I-XXXI (some hand-coloured and two with aquatint), and two smaller etchings printed as vignettes with the letterpress. Etchings, some with hand-colouring Aquatint
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