DGC405769 Wax ex-votos of the male penis from Isernia in the Molise region of Southern Italy (engraving) by English School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: ex voto images of the phallus were offered to Saints Cosmas and Damian at a Catholic religious festival; in his letter of 1781 to the Society of Dilettanti, Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803) describes this custom as a remnant in the Catholic Church of the fertility cult in classical antiquity of the god Priapus; gift from Hamilton to the British Museum; illustration from \'The Worship of Priapus\' by Richard Payne Knight (1750-1820) published in 1786 for the Dilettanti Society and reprinted in 1865;); Prismatic Pictures ; English, out of copyright.