Ancient World, Mythology, Ercolaneo
Regular price
$288.00
Sale price
$480.00
Shipping and Taxes calculated at checkout.
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;