The statue of a lively, leaping pig. Engraving by I. Frezza after G.E. Morghen (?).

1700-1799

1 print : engraving ; platemark 13 x 16.7 cm

Ah potessi io pur vivere Come vivesti tu! ; GM ; Isidoro Frezza sc. Translation of lettering: Ah, if only I could live as you lived!

The GM monogram is similar to one recorded by Nagler, loc. cit., as being the mark of Giovanni Elia Morghen. Both G.E. Morghen and Isidoro Frezza worked on the volumes of Delle antichità di Ercolano, Naples 1757-1789

G.K. Nagler, Die Monogrammisten, vol 2, Munich and Leipzig 1860, p. 154, no. 403

Wellcome Collection 40079i