2-750-417 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mural frieze in the Tomb of the Lionesses (Tomba delle Leonesse), Tarquinia, Italy, (1928). Etruscan burial chamber, '1st Half of 6th Century B.C...Flying fish [dolphins] and wild ducks over sea waves, palmette and lotus band above'. After a water-colour by L. Cartocci. Plate XXI, fig 57, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]