A BEAUTIFUL PAIR: Maenad or bacchante as you please. With translucent blue dress gown. Holding a box in her hand and another menaced or bacchante in a green dress  Anonymous hand-colored (gouache) copper etchings.  Published in "Le Antichita di Ercolano esposte"  An 8-volume work on the antiquities found during the excavations of Herculaneum.  Naples, 1757-1792
A BEAUTIFUL PAIR: Maenad or bacchante as you please. With translucent blue dress gown. Holding a box in her hand and another menaced or bacchante in a green dress  Anonymous hand-colored (gouache) copper etchings.  Published in "Le Antichita di Ercolano esposte"  An 8-volume work on the antiquities found during the excavations of Herculaneum.  Naples, 1757-1792

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A BEAUTIFUL PAIR: Maenad or bacchante as you please. With translucent blue dress gown. Holding a box in her hand and another menaced or bacchante in a green dress

Anonymous hand-colored (gouache) copper etchings.

Published in "Le Antichita di Ercolano esposte"

An 8-volume work on the antiquities found during the excavations of Herculaneum.

Naples, 1757-1792

Good condition. No margins. Black gouache to paper edges.

Full paper size - each: 30 x 24 cm (ca. 11.8 x 9.4")
Keywords:
In Greek mythology, maenads ( μαϊνάδες); female followers of Dionysus; Thiasus, the god's retinue; "raving ones"; Bassarids, Bacchae; Bacchantes;

 


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