DGC405751 Priapus (engraving) by English School, (18th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: in Greek mythology, Priapos, was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit, bees, gardens and male genitalia; usually depicted with a large erect phallus but here with a drooping male member; drawing of a bronze formerly in the Museum of the great 18th century collector, Charles Towneley; 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.