Painting removed from a wall of a room; possibly a triclinium or dining room; in a house in Pompeii in 1749. It shows Venus; or a young dancer or bacchant representing her; gracefully dancing at a banquet of the gods. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own 鈥楢ntichita 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.