Centaur as a woman #141. Spectacular print of half horse-half woman  E-mail this product to a friend

Centaurs of mythology were usually half man and half horse. This plate #141 is an illustration of a rare female centaur.

Reproduction from a copperplate-engraving coloured with gouache and watercolour. This series of engravings was 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.

This is not a good scan. The image colouring is quite opaque - a combination of gouache and watercolour.