Caption:
Fresco from Pompeii. Erotic scene with Apollo in laurel wreath and mantle ravishing a nymph. His bow and quiver stand to one side. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erotic paintings, bronzes and statues excavated in Pompeii and Herculaneum and stored in a Secret Cabinet at Naples.