Centaur. Spectacular rare female centaur with musical instrument #149  E-mail this product to a friend

Centaurs of mythology were usually half man and half horse. This is an illustration of a rare female centaur. This Plate #149 is of a lady centuar with lute and half a cymbal, carrying a male with the other half of a cymbal, so they're obviously playing together!

Reproduction from a hand-coloured copperplate engraving by Pierre-Jacques Gaultier / Filippo Morghen (1730-1807) / Giovanni Battista Nolli / Carlo Nolli / Nicolaus Oraly / Francesco Cepparuli / Aloja after a drawing by Francesco Lavega / Nicolaus Vanni architect Luigi Vanvitelli (1700-73)/ Camillo Paderni, for the most important 18th century archaeological work, following the excavations of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. “Le Antichita di Ercolano Esposto” (Herculaneum Antiquities Exposed), published in Naples between 1757 and 1792 (under the patronage of King Charles II), depicts the archaelogical discoveries over a period of forty years from Herculaneum, a Roman municipium buried when Mt Vesuvius erupted in 79AD.