The education of Bacchus. Three nymphs offer a bunch of grapes to the little god Bacchus who is raised up by his tutor Silenus. Mercury sits at right with a cithara (lyre). Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1789.

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