A design for an Italianate salon

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Fred Marshall (fl. 19th Century)
A design for an Italianate salon
indistinctly signed 'Fred Marshall' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour heightened with white
12 x 16 in. (30.4 x 40.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

It has been suggested that the present design is inspired by the Baths of Titus, Rome as the illustrations of these interiors had been published by Monsieur Ponce in 1786. However another possibility is that the illustration relates to the Precinct wall of the Temple of Isis in Pompeii, published in Sir William Hamilton's paper in Archaeologia also in 1786.

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