Autel de Bacchus, from Les Plus Beaux Monuments de Rome Ancienne ou Recueil des plus beaux Morceaux de l'Antiquité Romaine qui existent encore
Designed and engraved by Jean Barbault French
Printer Giunchi Heritiers de Komarek Italian
Publisher Bouchard & Gravier Italian
Not on view
Plate 51, View with a three-sided (candelabrum?) base or altar with a dancing female figure on the vertical face. The figure is identified in the text on the adjacent page (page 85) as one of the three bacchanals represented on the sculpture. The tripod is decorated with harpies standing on rams-head's at the corners and ornamental bands along the top and bottom. This image is one of twenty-nine full-page plates in the volume.
