VIII.5.28 Pompeii. Casa della
Calce or Casa di Popidius Celsinus.
Excavated 1815, 1819, 1826, 1838, 1874, 1882 and 1943.
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VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 7, oecus, centre left.
However, Gell described this room as a cubiculum, “the white boudoir.”
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, west wall of oecus or cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, north wall of oecus or cubiculum.
The middle zone of this wall would have been white, with alternating panels and architectural painting.
Above this was a frieze of red stucco with patterns painted over it. The upper area was white finished with a cornice.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, detail of north wall of oecus or cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, north-east corner of oecus or cubiculum.
The middle zone of the north wall would have been white divided by a narrow central compartment with candelabra; the side panels also were white and delimited by garlands. Above was a frieze of red stucco with decorations painted in white, and the upper area was also white. IV Style.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, upper east wall of oecus or cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. c.1840.
Painting by James William Wild of east wall in a corner of a small
room, 11.5 x 11 wide.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.3982-1938.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, detail of painting on upper east wall of oecus or cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, architectural painting of aedicula and oscillum, on upper east wall of oecus or cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, east wall of oecus or cubiculum.
Detail of frieze of red stucco on which was painted in white, dolphins, deer and figures.
Recognisable in part of the upper zone was a garland near to a painted aedicula with an oscillum hung near its ceiling with festoons.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, detail of frieze on red stucco on east wall of oecus or cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. Undated painting by Raoul Rochette, of a wall in room 7.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii.
Room 7, described by Gell, as the side of a cubiculum in the House of Fuscus, painted with a beautiful light tracery on a white background.
See Gell, W, 1832. Pompeiana: Vol 1. London: Jennings and Chaplin, (p.3 and Plate III)
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. Room 7, painted wall in cubiculum.
According to Roux –
Planche 108.
….. la peinture, a
la place de laquelle nous avons mis un petit paysage, a été enlevée et placée
au musée : on dit que le sujet en était peu décent ; elle doit donc
se trouver dans le Musée secret. Visconti la désigne comme représentant
Sophonisbe et Massinissa.
(….. the painting, in the place of which we have put a
small landscape, has been removed and placed in the museum: it is said that the
subject was not very decent; it must therefore be in the Secret Museum. Visconti
refers to it as representing Sophonisba and Massinissa.)
See Roux, H. (1840). Herculaneum et Pompei recueil général des peintures, bronzes, mosaïques, v.1, Peintures, série 1: Decorations Architecturales (p.133-134) (Planche 108, but written as No.112 and crossed through).
(Note: In VIII.2.39, (aka Casa di Giuseppe II or Casa di Fusco or House of Emperor Joseph II), a painting is shown there of Sophonisba, found 22nd July 1769, and now in Naples Archaeological Museum, inv. no. 8968.)
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. Room 7, undated watercolour painting of west end of north wall?
See
Lesueur, Jean-Baptiste Ciceron. Voyage en Italie de Jean-Baptiste Ciceron
Lesueur (1794-1883), pl. 94.
See Book on INHA reference INHA NUM PC 15469 (04) « Licence Ouverte / Open Licence » Etalab
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. Between 1823 and 1828. Room 7, painting by F. Duban of east end of north wall?
See Duban F. Album
de dessins d'architecture effectués par Félix Duban pendant son pensionnat à la
Villa Medicis, entre 1823 et 1828 : Tome 2, Pompéi, pl. 40.
INHA Identifiant numérique NUM PC 40425 (2)
https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/7157
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VIII.5.28 Pompeii. Room 7, 1832 painting by J. B. Plantar, of east end of north wall?
See Plantar,
Jean-Baptiste (1790-1879) Album de dessins d'architecture et d'art décoratif,
p. 13.
INHA Identifiant
numérique : NUM MS 675. See Book on INHA
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VIII.5.28 Pompeii. c.1840. Room 7.
Painting by James William Wild of a wall (possibly the north wall)
in a small room, 11.5 x 11 wide, with segmental roof.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.3981-1938.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. c.1840. Room 7. Painting by James William Wild
showing detail from the north in a small room.
Photo © Victoria and Albert Museum, inventory number E.3980-1938.
(Written in pencil on the painting
“Low cornice or shelf running from AAA and squares with something
on them between bluish and white figures, much ruined.”)
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, south wall of oecus or cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 7, floor in oecus or cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Masonry atrium wall between rooms 7 and 8 on west side of atrium.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 8, cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, cubiculum.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 8, cubiculum. Sill or threshold.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Masonry atrium wall between rooms 8 and 9 on west side of atrium.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Doorway to room 9, small room or cupboard.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, small room or cupboard. Looking west.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 9, supports for shelving on south wall of small room or cupboard.
VIII.5.28 Pompeii. March 2009. Room 1, atrium. Looking south-east across impluvium.
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