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Album of 55 exquisitely colored lithographs and watercolor drawings in the style of Pompeiian frescoes.
[Italian?], c 1850. (POMPEII) Folio. Each plate (8-1/2 x 10-1/2, and smaller) is tipped to a larger sheet; two are entirely uncolored, another only partially. Bound together in three quarter red morocco by Pawson & Nicholson, Philadelphia, with their ticket. Rebacked in goatskin, original spine laid down, inner hinges reinforced with period cloth. ΒΆ A superb collection of lovely lithographed images which, in many instances are so delicately and minutely colored as to be indistinguishable from watercolor drawings - and indeed, several of them we believe to be entirely original drawings - each in the style of the ancient art of Pompeii in its frescoes, geometric mosaics, and ceramics. There are scenes of mythological figures (e.g., a satyr cavorting with a goat); scenes of purely decorative nature, suggestive of Pompeian vase art against a black gloss background; domestic scenes of husband, wife, and children; cupids; pastoral scenes; fish and game; and several images of an openly erotic nature suggestive of the relaxed style of Pompeiian attitudes toward nudity
Offered for US$ 5000.00 by: James Cummins Bookseller - Book number: 56925