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Decorate your villa up like they did in Pompeii. Plates from Wilhelm Zahn and Otto Jahn’s 1828 work “Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herculanum und Stabiae” which was published in Berlin. Otto Jahn having been an archeologist.
Page 57. Printed by C. Hildebrant. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/schoYnstenOrnam00Zahn/page/n58/mode/1up?view=theater“Aus Pompeji.” Page 65. Printed by C. Hildebrant. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/schoYnstenOrnam00Zahn/page/65/mode/1up?view=theaterPage 67. Printed by C. Hildebrant. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/schoYnstenOrnam00Zahn/page/67/mode/1up?view=theater“Wand aus der casa delle Danzatrici zu Pompeji.” Page 69. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/schoYnstenOrnam00Zahn/page/69/mode/1up?view=theaterRemalte Saule und Capitale aus Pompeji. Page 131. Taken from Wilhelm Zahn and Otto Jahn’s 1828 work Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herculanum und Stabiae. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/schoynstenornam00zahnWand aus der Casa de Capitelli colorate zu Pompeji, ausgegraben 1833. Page 141. Taken from Wilhelm Zahn and Otto Jahn’s 1828 work Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herculanum und Stabiae. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/schoynstenornam00zahnTheil einer Wand aus der Casa de Capitelli colorati zu Pompeji, ausggraben 1833. Page 171. Taken from Wilhelm Zahn and Otto Jahn’s 1828 work Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herculanum und Stabiae. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/schoynstenornam00zahnGemalte Wand aus Pompeji. Page 207. Taken from Wilhelm Zahn and Otto Jahn’s 1828 work Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herculanum und Stabiae. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/schoynstenornam00zahnMosaik Fussboden aus Pompeji. Page 231. Taken from Wilhelm Zahn and Otto Jahn’s 1828 work Die schönsten Ornamente und merkwürdigsten Gemälde aus Pompeji, Herculanum und Stabiae. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. Metropolitan New York Library Council, digitalizing sponsor. In the public domain due to age. via https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/schoynstenornam00zahn
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