Ancient World, Mythology, Ercolaneo

A BEAUTIFUL PAIR: Maenad or bacchante as you please. With translucent blue dress gown. Holding a box in her hand and another menaced or bacchante in a green dress Anonymous hand-colored (gouache) copper etchings. Published in "Le Antichita di Ercolano esposte" An 8-volume work on the antiquities found during the excavations of Herculaneum. Naples, 1757-1792 Good condition. No margins. Black gouache to paper edges. Full paper size - each: 30 x 24 cm (ca. 11.8 x 9.4")Keywords:In Greek mythology, maenads ( μαϊνάδες); female followers of Dionysus; Thiasus, the god's retinue; "raving ones"; Bassarids, Bacchae; Bacchantes;