Scene from a comedy. An old man leans on a staff as two musicians in comic masks play on a tibia flute and sing, perhaps from an intermission. Vignette of two tragic masks, one comic mask and one weeping mask. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.

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