Bacchanalia or festival to Bacchus, Roman god of wine. One crazed man holds a torch, the other two spears or javelins and a buckler. Woman with basket on her head. Rhytion and crater vases to Bacchus on the ground. Copperplate engraving by Thomas Kirk (1765-1797) from Sir William Hamilton’s Outlines from the Figures and Compositions upon the Greek, Roman and Etruscan Vases of the Late Sir Hamilton, T. M’Lean, London, 1834.

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