Lithograph, Interior View Of The Tepidarium After Piranesi, 19th Century

View of a room in the Trepidarium in Pompeii.
It is written below the title “or room which preceded the Stove with the seats where one sweated.”
In the upper part, annotated at the top left: Vol III, annotated at the top right: PL CXXXX
In the lower part, annotated on the left: Drawn by GB Piranesi, annotated on the right: Engraved by F. Piranesi In the year 13 (1805.

Good general condition.

Dimensions:
Frame: 56.7 x 82 cm
On view: 43 x 57.2 cm

In ancient Rome, the tepidarium (from the Latin tepidus, “lukewarm”) was the part of the thermal baths where the Romans took lukewarm steam baths. In the organization of the ancient bath, the tepidarium is the intermediary between the caldarium and the frigidarium; it thus constitutes the necessary airlock between the hot zones and the cold zones of the establishment thermal.