Women with necklaces

Description

"It is a very common error to translate monile baccatum, "a pearl necklace". The ornament of which we are here speaking is frequently shown in ancient paintings, &c., as in the two following cuts." — Anthon, 1891

Keywords

angel, necklace, wing, women

Galleries

Ancient Greece

Source:

Charles Anthon Aenid of Virgil (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1891) 350

Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman