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 Getty ArtSets Gallery
Objects Discovered at Herculaneum
Pierre-Adrien Paris

French, 1777
Pen and black ink and watercolor
9 x 14 9/16 in.

Almost 2,000 years ago a volcano in southern Italy blew up, burying cities with ash and lava. The buried cities were rediscovered hundreds of years later. This drawing shows some of the furniture discovered in the excavations of the buried city called Herculaneum.

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