More sketches from the recent British Museum Pompeii exhibition. First the famously contorted death-cast of a guard dog, followed by a mosaic door sign (“Cave canem”- beware of the dog) found in the same villa; it’s hard not to see the sign as a portrait of the dead dog when alive…

And this was one of a pair of sculptures depicting violent hunting scenes, found in the ‘House of the stags’ alongside the drunken Hercules I posted last week.

All pencil, with a little dilute Lexington grey ink and watercolour, A5