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Per email from Jackie and Bob Dunn on 14/06/2023: "...Your photo is from VI.14.28 in Pompeii. Taberna Lusoria. North wall. It was excavated around 1876.

The central painting is Venus Pescatrice – Venus fishing with the help of cupid and with a winged figure holding a branch watching from above. In the panel to the right are two figures, Mercury and Bacchus, with Bacchus leaning on a pillar.

If you have a look at our page [pompeiiinpictures.com] for the Taberna Lusoria you will see several corroborating photos.

Most of the painting is now faded or gone but you can still match your photo [despite it being out of focus] with the old 1930’s photos of Tatiana Warscher in the American Academy in Rome (higher resolution AAR copies attached), the 19th century photo of Roberto Rive and paintings of Geremia Discanno.

Even the current wall matches the holes in the wall in your photo.

https://www.pompeiiinpictures.com/pompeiiinpictures/R6/6%2014%2028.htm" - JK

Per email from Jackie and Bob Dunn 15/06/2023: This is the same wall as shown in an image known as DAIR 72.1098, a photo © Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom, Arkiv, which has a wider, in-focus view of the wall. They speculate that the image in HEIR may be a reproduction of the DAIR image. However, as this image is out of focus and shows a smaller view of the wall, it seems unlikely to have been a commercial reproduction of the high quality DAIR view.- JK