Ancient World, Frescos, Ercolano, Herculaneum Online

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Ancient World, Frescos, Ercolano, Herculaneum

No title: Three naked young men servants, their heads decorated with olive branches, with an olive branch in one hand and a tray in the other  

Wall frescos discovered during excavation in Ercolano / Herculaneum

Hand-colored copper etching.

Published in “Le Antichita di Ercolano esposte”

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

Naples, 1757-1792

Original antique print 

The side by side images are surrounded with velvety black gouache color reaching to the edge of paper.

The three images measure: 20 x 30 cm (ca. 7.8 x 11.8″)

Full sheet measurement: 33 x 45 cm (ca. 13 x 17.7″). For framing one can choose more or less of the black