Eleven Roman painted fresco fragments, one showing a nude bearded man making an offering over an altar, with a woman looking on; two others showing erotes flying above a reclining naked woman, circa 1st Century A.D., 6¼ x 6in. (15.9 x 15.2cm.) max., all mounted in a frame and glazed, frame 20½ x 20½in. (52 x 52cm.)

Eleven Roman painted fresco fragments, one showing a nude bearded man making an offering over an altar, with a woman looking on; two others showing erotes flying above a reclining naked woman, circa 1st Century A.D., 6¼ x 6in. (15.9 x 15.2cm.) max., all mounted in a frame and glazed, frame 20½ x 20½in. (52 x 52cm.)

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Provenance

Almost certainly acquired by Peter Langford-Brooke in November 1828 in Rome

Lot Essay

The account book for 28 November 1828 refers to a:
piece of Mosaic 10
Paid for Mosaic mending 2/5

This 'frame containing fragments of antique paintings...all the above from Herculaneum' is recorded in the Library in the 1840 Inventory

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