A French Phallic Drawing From The Eighteenth Century

(PHALLIC DRAWING). Sketch. 1pg. No date [18th Century]. No place [France]. A pen and ink sketch of two phallis, dressed up as animals. There is French writing that translates to Taken from Mr. the Abb de Saint-Non. Taken from the antiquities of the Museum of NaplesWinged phallus coming out of a snail shellForm of a phallus with several figuresPhallus representing an animal whose extremities of each limb form other phalli, a child on top who crowns itThe fly pulling a grasshopper or cicada in a sort of cloth chariotThe Latins [called it] Mentula. There are additional French notes on the back that do not concern the drawings. Abb de Saint-Non (Jean-Claude Richard) was important in Eighteenth Century French art and archaeology. Between 1781 and 1786, he published a massive study titled Voyage pittoresque ou Description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile, one of the first books to illustrate the hidden finds of Pompeii and Herculaneum. These sketches probably correspond to some of the ancient sexual drawings. The manuscript is in fine condition with light soiling to the paper.