Observations upon the antiquities of the town of Herculaneum, discovered at the foot of Mount Vesuvius : with some reflections on the painting and sculpture of the ancients : and a short description of the antiquities in the neighbourhood of Naples (1754)
Bellicard, Jérôme Charles, 1726-1786, Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790 · London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ... · leaf 104
e areas big as the life: it reprefents aWoman fitting and leaning uponthe right arm, and holding a ftaffin her other hand. She is crownedwith flowers and leaves, intermixedV/ith fome ears of corn, and at herright fide appears a bafket of flowers,from which ihe is fuppofed to repre-fent the goddefs… … [63] fuppofed to be Hercules, on accountof the lions {kin that covers his qui-ver. He is looking at a child, whoin the lower part of the pidure, isreprefented fucking a hind, whichcarefTes him, and lifts up her hindleg that he he may fuck with moreeafe. Between Hercules and thischild is an eagle…
