Fresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a man and woman in amorous embrace, serenaded by a female musician, citharistria, playing a lyre. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erotic paintings, bronzes and statues excavated in Pompeii and Herculaneum and stored in a Secret Cabinet at Naples.

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