Title

Mural painting in the Tomb of Typhon (Tomba del Tifone) at Tarquinia, Italy, (1928]. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Mural painting in the Tomb of Typhon (Tomba del Tifone) at Tarquinia, Italy, (1928]. Etruscan burial chamber, '3rd-2nd Century B.C...Frieze of flying fish [dolphins] over stylicised waves'. After a water-colour by L. Cartocci. Plate XXIII, fig 61, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]

Date

1928

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G24_245

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (6,7Mb) / 16,5in x 11,2in / 4956 x 3352 (300dpi)

Keywords

sea animal Ernst Wasmuth Ltd Wasmuth Ltd L Cartocci Cartocci L L. Cartocci Cartocci L. waves Italy building interior fish jumping architecture arts painting country pattern wave book geography color fishes dolphin dolphins design decoration decorative death archaeology tomb mausoleum mural location century archaeological burial inside fresco interior design literature concept archaeological site archeology twenties stylised interior decoration Colour Patterned aquatic life Indoors 1920s 20th century Etruscan The Print Collector burial chamber Etruria flying fish geographical feature necropolis lithograph Unknown Bossert Tarquinia Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration Helmuth Theodor Bossert Hellmut Theodor Helmuth Theodor Helmuth Hellmut Theodor Bossert Helmuth Bossert Ernst Wasmuth Verlag Wasmuth Verlag Ernst