Large wall painting of Orpheus with a lyre from the House of Vesonius Primus, a fuller. He is surrounded by animals including a lion, cougar, boar, stag, hare and a blue flamingo. Illustration drawn by Discanno and lithographed by Victor Steeger from Emil Presuhn's "Pompeji. Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874-1881," Weigel, Leipzig, 1882. German archeologist Presuhn (1844-1881) lived in Italy for eight years and, with Mr. Discanno and Miss Amy Butts, made exact copies of many wall paintings that are now lost.
Large wall painting of Orpheus with a lyre from the House of Vesonius Primus, a fuller. He is surrounded by animals including a lion, cougar, boar, stag, hare and a blue flamingo. Illustration drawn by Discanno and lithographed by Victor Steeger from Emil Presuhn's "Pompeji. Die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874-1881," Weigel, Leipzig, 1882. German archeologist Presuhn (1844-1881) lived in Italy for eight years and, with Mr. Discanno and Miss Amy Butts, made exact copies of many wall paintings that are now lost.