1st century Herculaneum fresco with frieze below waterside buildings.

$40.00

Antique print of fresco with fishermen and rowers, excavated at Herculaneum c1757.

Rare copperplate engraved mezzotint people waiting near the waters' edge. Engraved by Cepparuli from a drawing by Niccolo Vanni for the most important archaeological work of the 18th century – the recording of the discoveries at Pompeii, Ercolano (Herculaneum) and Stabiae (Campania), the region that had been covered since the eruption of Mt Vesusius late in AD79.

Wonderful little 18th century engraving with later hand-colour. This little scene would have embellished a page with text. The engraving is further embellished by a frieze across its base – which shows the areas that had been damaged so were indecipherable. The heavily printed text shows through slightly from behind the hand-made paper which is relatively clean considering it is over 250 years' old.

To plate impression measures 115 x 235mm (4 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches).