1939 Halftone Print Villa House Di Diomedes Estate Pompeii Garden XGR9 VEN4 Goldsmiths

Goldsmiths

John Alexander Cooper This is an original 1904 black and white in-text lithograph illustration by H

28 x 36 cm

This piece was illustrated by Jewitt

In World War II

1939 Halftone Print Villa House Di Diomedes Estate Pompeii Garden XGR9 VEN4 GoldsmithsThis is an original 1939 black and white halftone print of the Villa (House) di Diomedes. A wealthy estate excavated in the buried city of Pompeii. Belonging to a wealthy Roman family, this estate overlooked the Gulf of Naples and boasted an enormous colonnade lined garden (pictured center) with a pool in a cryptoporticus (covered gallery). It was here that the preserved remains of the master of the house and his eighteen guests, mainly women who were