Pompei

Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor drawings in the style of Pompeiian frescoes

1850 · 56925 — Italian 1850. Each plate 8-1/2 x 10-1/2 in. and smaller is tipped to a larger sheet; two are entirely uncolored another only partially. 1 vols. Folio. Bound together in three quarter red morocco by Pawson & Nicholson Philadelphia with their ticket. Rebacked in goatskin original spine laid down inner hinges reinforced with period cloth. Each plate 8-1/2 x 10-1/2 in. and smaller is tipped to a larger sheet; two are entirely uncolored another only partially. 1 vols. Folio. Exquisite Images of Pompeian Frescoes. A superb collection of lovely lithographed images which in many instances are so delicately and minutely colored as to be indistinguishable from watercolor drawings - and indeed several of them we believe to be entirely original drawings - each in the style of the ancient art of Pompeii in its frescoes geometric mosaics and ceramics. There are scenes of mythological figures e.g. a satyr cavorting with a goat; scenes of purely decorative nature suggestive of Pompeian vase art against a black gloss background; domestic scenes of husband wife and children; cupids; pastoral scenes; fish and game; and several images of an openly erotic nature suggestive of the relaxed style of Pompeiian attitudes toward nudity. unknown books