Filippo Morghen was an accomplished eighteenth century engraver of portraits,

architectural views, antiquities, plans and maps.

He studied art in Rome for a period of seven years before settling in Naples 

were he not only created etchings and engravings but established himself as a print seller and as a publisher. 

He was a leading engraver for the recent archaeological discoveries

detailed in the Antiquities of Herculaneum, published in Naples in 1757, 

and the sole engraver and publisher of Le Antichità di Pozzuoli,

Baja e Cuma published in 1766-69.