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The drawing shows two elevations of the Insula of the Paintings that included the House of the Paintings, House of the Infant Bacchus and House of Jove and Ganymede. The drawing in the upper left shows the façade of the insula that faced on to Via dei Dipinti with the river Tiber to the left and Capitolium to the right. The lower left shows the state of the buildings following their excavation by Calza between 1915 and 1919.
On the righthand side of the drawing is the elevation of the insula, principally the House of Jove and Ganymede that faced on to Via di Diana (north side). The influence and ideas of Calza are clear as Lawrence’s restoration has direct parallels with reconstructions drawn by Italo Gismondi for Calza’s 1923 publication Le origini latine dell’abitazione moderna. The volume includes several of Lawrences’s restorations, including this drawing (Figs. 13 and 14, p. 14). Others included that are in the collection of the British School at Rome are ‘Bazaar west of Capitol – Ostia’ (Fig. 30, p.55), which shows the ground plan and elevation of the House of the Lararium and incorrectly labels the Curia the Seat of the Augustales (discovered in Regio V, Insula VII). Finally, Calza used Lawrence’s drawing of the ground and first floor (though not second floor) (Fig. 12, p.13) of the Insula of the Paintings.

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