Painting removed from a wall of a room, possibly a triclinium or dining room, in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows two dancers in fine transparent robes of green and yellow, elegantly dancing together touching thumb and index fingers. 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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