For Snake-lovers. Pompeiian Vanni Putti fresco. Morghen engraving c1760.

by Morghen, Filippo

Snake on pedestal. Small Cherub 18thC antique print. 

One of a charming series of small 18th century fresco engravings unearthed at Pompeii in the middle of the 18th century, this wonderful image has later highlighting by hand.

Original mezzotint c1760 engraved on copper by Fillipo Morghen after a drawing by Nicolaus Vanni for the most important 18th century archaeological documentation, of excavations at Pompeii, Ercolano (Herculaneum) and Stabiae, - discovered during excavation hundreds of years after the region was covered by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. Published in Naples between 1757 and 1792, with patronage of King Charles II.

 Engraving to plate mark measures 11 x 16cm (4 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches).