2-750-433 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Wall decoration, Pompeii, Italy, (1928). 'About 50 A.D...Mural painting on N. wall of the great oecus, the dining and banqueting hall, in the "Casa dei Vettii". Over the satyr (on left at bottom of Plate) Agamemnon in the sanctuary of Artemis, further up (on left) cupids gathering grapes, on the right cupids at the feast of the vestals: in upper panel (right): satyr and bacchante'. Plate XXXIV, fig 82, 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]