Description of the first plate from The Classical Journal: In plate XXVI, two young men perform funeral rites at a sepulchral cippus, probably alluding to the story of Orestes at the tomb of Agamemnon.
Description of the first plate from The Classical Journal: The first image of these two is From Plates 1, 2 and 3. One picture on this vase represents a young man in a chariot drawn by four horses : he seems to have outstripped his rivals in the course, and presents himself before the judge or president of the games, to claim the reward of his victory ; he is accompanied by a female, who sits by his side, and assists in managing the reins, whilst two other females, one running before the horses, the other by their side, seem to indicate the way ; these are perhaps the nymphs, Virtue, and Glory, and the female sitting in the chariot, or Victory herself.
The second image may be this one: On the reverse (Plate XVII,) three youths, one offering a cup to him who is in the middle.
Description of the first plate from The Classical Journal, see: This may be from Plate XXV, Mr. Millingen first offers the observations of his accomplished friend, M. Chevalier de Rossi, and then his own. According to the Italian antiquary, it represents Hercules at the moment when he decided between Virtue and Vice, here expressed by Minerva and a female figure, denoting Pleasure or Voluptuousness ; behind this female Mercury appears as if waiting for the decision of Hercules, that he might carry the news to Olympus: another male figure at the opposite end may be one of Hercules' companions. Our learned author, however, Mr. Millingen, is of opinion that this interesting picture represents the Apotheosis of Hercules, •whom Minerva had led into heaven ; before him is Hebe given by Jupiter as his wife; near her is Mercury, by whom site had been conducted to Hercules; and the extreme figure is probably Theseus, the intimate friend of that hero during life, and exalted, like him, to divine honors after his death. A difference of opinion in the explanation of ancient monuments will not surprise us now, if we consider that even in the time of Pausanias many works of former ages were subject to a variety of interpretations.
Plate XIV, Aurora pursues young Cephalus ; who endeavors to avoid her :—the story of these personages we find on many vases, which seem copied from the same original; but here the painter has introduced Cephalus's dog, which, with his javelin, was very famous in ancient mythology.
Prints from James Millingen's Peintures Antiques de Vases Grecs, published in 1817. This book is rare, the World Cat lists it in The British Library and about 40 other libraries around the world.
The complete title is Peintures antiques de Vases Grecs de la collection de Sir J. Coghill, Bart., publiées par J. M. [With letters of G. G. de Rossi, the former possessor of this collection, prefixed, translated from the Italian.].
A similar work may be Peintures de vases antiques recueillies par Millin (1808) et Millingen (1813) publiées et commentées par Salomon Reinach. Main Author: Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932. The artists: Main Author: Millin, A. L, 1759-1818. Millingen, James, 1774-1845. Another by Millin: Millin (A. L.). Peintttrcs dcs vases antiques. 2 vols. Paris, 1808-10, fol. The Introduction of Dubois-Maisonneuve (y.v.) was published uniform with this. Re-edited by S. Reinach in 4to, Paris, 1891. (Millin Reinach.)
A reference to it is made in the Open Library Peintures antiques de vases Grecs de la collection de Sir John Coghill Bart. Published 1817 by James Millingen in Rom . Written in French
From A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors: living and deceased ; from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century ; containing thirty thousand biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects, by Samuel Austin Allibone
Millingen, James, 1774-1845, a native of London, resided for the last twenty-four years of his life in Italy, engrossed in these antiquarian researches which have conferred upon his name such wide celebrity. 1. Recueil de quelques Medailles Grecques inSdites, Rome, 1812, 4to. 2. Peintures Antiques inedites de Vases Grecs, 1813, atlas fol. 3. Medallic Hist, of Napoleon, Lon., 1819, 4to ; Supp., 1822. This work was also pub. by the author in French.
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From The Classical Journal Volume 31, March and June, 1925
NOTICE OF PEINTURES ANTIQUES de VASES GRECS, de la collection de Sir. John Coghill, Bart. publisher, James Millingen, de la Societe des Antiquaires de Londres, et de f Academic Archeologique de Rome.—Large folio: Rome, 1817.
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