Architectural painting of an Ionic portico, with a cornice decorated with dolphins and tritons, and an entablature with vase. Perhaps a Coenaculum, the upper room on a country house. Vignette below shows a parrot pulling a cricket in a chariot. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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Size: 5100px × 6296px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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