Fresco from Gragnano of Venus on her Conch Shell. The goddess of love fans herself with a lily leaf as she reclines on a seashell attended by Cupid and a dolphin. Handcoloured lithograph by A. Delvaux 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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