Fresco from Pompeii: bridal night. A young bride in virgin's girdle about to be deflowered by her husband, while the cubicular slave brings a cask of essences and perfumes. The caption is "Lente impelle" (push gently). 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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