[SICILY]. Various notes on ancient Sicily. - Lot 260

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[SICILY]. Various notes on ancient Sicily. - Lot 260
[SICILY]. Various notes on ancient Sicily. 5 files, with notes by the Duke of Luynes and/or his secretary. Including: Motya, with watercolour drawings of "Fragments of ancient vases found in Motya". - Segeste. - Lilyboeum. - Drepanum. - Tsits (with scholarly correspondence, in Italian and French, addressed to the Duke of Luynes; maps drawn on tracing paper, one of which is enhanced). Joint: [NAPLES]. DEBACQ (JOSEPH FRÉDÉRIC) Dessin à la mine des grottes de Pausilippe, with caption: "Vue d'une des grottes de Pausilippe" signed F. Debacq. Dimensions: 192 x 243 mm. Joseph Frédéric Debacq travelled with the Duke of Luynes. He travelled in the Naples region in search of the remains of the Great Greece. Pausilippe, in the Bay of Naples, was a holiday resort for the wealthy Romans of Antiquity. This trip marked the beginning of their long collaboration, and Debacq would work as an architect on the Duke's many residences, including the castle of Dampierre, strongly inspired by Antiquity.
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