Vignettes of Cupids playing at trades or professions. Above, two Cupids or genii imitate Capulatores or grape pressers while another stirs grape juice over a stove. Below, two Cupids make leather shoes in a shoemakers' shop with lasts and tools. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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Vignettes of Cupids playing at trades or professions. Above, two Cupids or genii imitate Capulatores or grape pressers while another stirs grape juice over a stove. Below, two Cupids make leather shoes in a shoemakers' shop with lasts and tools. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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