Painting of Venus and Penia, goddess of poverty and nurse of Eros, with three amorini (cupids) of desire, appetite and lust. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.

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