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| Francesco Fontebasso Six Nymphs and Two Putti (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) ca. 1744 drawing (print study) Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Six Nymphs and Two Putti (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) 1744 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Venus and Vulcan with Nymphs and Putti (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) 1744 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Satyr with Club and Seven Other Figures (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) 1744 etching Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Nine Figures beside a Herm of Pan (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) 1744 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
from Faustine
And Bacchus cast your mates and you
Wild grapes to glean;
Your flower-like lips were dashed with dew
From his, Faustine.
Your drenched loose hands were stretched to hold
The vine's wet green,
Long ere they coined in Roman gold
Your face, Faustine.
Then after change of soaring feather
And winnowing fin,
You woke in weeks of feverish weather,
A new Faustine.
A star upon your birthday burned,
Whose fierce serene
Red pulseless planet never yearned
In heaven, Faustine.
Stray breaths of Sapphic song that blew
Through Mitylene
Shook the fierce quivering blood in you
By night, Faustine.
The shameless nameless love that makes
Hell's iron gin
Shut on you like a trap that breaks
The soul, Faustine.
And when your veins were void and dead,
What ghosts unclean
Swarmed round the straitened barren bed
That hid Faustine?
What sterile growths of sexless root
Or epicene?
What flower of kisses without fruit
Of love, Faustine?
What adders came to shed their coats?
What coiled obscene
Small serpents with soft stretching throats
Caressed Faustine?
– Algernon Charles Swinburne (1867)
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| Francesco Fontebasso Sacrifice of Iphigenia (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) 1744 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Sophonisba taking Poison (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) 1744 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) 1744 etching National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Et in Arcadia Ego (Series - Bacchanals and Histories) ca. 1744 drawing (print study) Morgan Library, New York |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Design for a Fountain with Neptune and his Chariot ca. 1740-60 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Pope Gregory I releasing Souls from Purgatory through his Prayers 1731 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Francesco Fontebasso The Virgin appearing to St Benedict, St Scholastica, and other Saints before 1769 etching Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Adoration of the Shepherds before 1769 drawing British Museum |
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| Francesco Fontebasso The Flood before 1769 drawing Morgan Library, New York |