2-750-418 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mural painting in the Tomb of the Baron (Tomba del Barone) at Tarquinia, Italy, (1928). Etruscan burial chamber, '2nd Half of 6th Century B.C....Left corner...Mounted youths and sacrificial scene. In the pediment sea-horses and flying fish' [dolphins]. After a water-colour by L. Cartocci. Plate XXI, fig 58, 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]