2-750-421 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mural painting in the Tomb of Typhon (Tomba del Tifone) at Tarquinia, Italy, (1928]. Etruscan burial chamber, '3rd-2nd Century B.C...Frieze of flying fish [dolphins] over stylicised waves'. After a water-colour by L. Cartocci. Plate XXIII, fig 61, 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]