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Bonomi MSS 48.18
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Medea plans the murder of her children, who are playing knucklebones
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(1796-1878)
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Medea plans the murder of her children, who are playing knucklebones, sketched or traced from a late 19th century engraving reproducing a fresco from the peristyle 53 of the Casa dei Dioscuri at Pompeii, now in Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, inv. 8977, 1st century AD):
- pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
- mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 48.15-17
- 9.1 x 9.3 cm
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