Fresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked woman riding on top of a man on a mattress on a bed with three sides. A cubicular slave looks back carrying a plate with an aphrodisiac. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erotic paintings, bronzes and statues excavated in Pompeii and Herculaneum and stored in a Secret Cabinet at Naples.
Fresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene showing a naked woman riding on top of a man on a mattress on a bed with three sides. A cubicular slave looks back carrying a plate with an aphrodisiac. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erotic paintings, bronzes and statues excavated in Pompeii and Herculaneum and stored in a Secret Cabinet at Naples.