2-750-427 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Wall decoration, Pompeii, Italy, (1928). Leopard attacking a bull, with reclining male figure below, 'About Date of Christ's Birth...From the east wall of the viridarium of the "Casa degli epigrammi greci". After Antonio Niccolini. Plate XXVIII, fig 71, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]