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blue (next to column), red, yellowish brown and yellow, while in the 

 opening the section of wall which shows is blue. The lower part of 

 this wall, as well as the opening, is shut off by a screen in yellowish and 

 greenish brown. In it there is a tall narrow door indicated by means 

 of white lines. It is represented as closed. Above there are horizontal 

 red lines. Of the second story there appears on this side only a trian- 

 gular bit of wall, colored green. 



From the structure just described there is a view of part of the front 

 of a building, probably a temple, carried out in various shades of green. 

 At the corner of the building there is a Corinthian column without base, 

 supporting an entablature — architrave, frieze with figures indistinctly 

 suggested, and cornice. Above appears the end of the pediment, which 

 is destitute of figures. At the right of the column and beneath the 

 architrave a portion of the front wall of the pronaos is visible, and beyond 

 it, in a darker shade of green, a bit of the wall of the cella} 



The aquatic scene which is painted on the principal wall surface 

 above the opening has a green background representing water, in the 

 center of which are seen tall white plants, while at right and left there 

 is a fish. The picture has a border of dark red trimmed with white 

 and a narrow dark brown stripe just inside the white. The frame of 

 the panel is completed by a yellow band across the top corresponding 

 in length to the cornice above the dado. The ends of this band are 

 treated as in No. 24651 (q. v.). 



From the analogy of similar pieces it is very probable that this 

 panel was placed on the left of the principal design. 2 



Height, m. 2.106 ( = 6 ft. 10.91 in.). Width, m. 0.785 ( = 2 ft. 6.9 in.). 



The panel is substantially complete. 



The plaster has many cracks. The paint is faded, and is chipped off in numerous 

 places, mostly small, though the general effect is quite well preserved. 



The paint seems to have been applied to a thin coat of stucco or fine plaster. 

 The gable was originally about an inch higher, and the first sketch may be seen 

 under the white where the latter is worn. The vertical red stripe at the left just 

 past the vestibule looks like an afterthought. There are many instances of one 

 color over another, due to contiguity. The shades of the colors are varied to in- 

 dicate light and shadow, as, for example, in the column, the cornice and the screen. 



FRESCO. 24651. [Plate CXXI.] 



Panel with architectural design. A narrow strip of wall is painted, 

 as in the preceding number (24657), with dado and top-piece, while the 

 portion between them is conceived as affording a view out into the open 



1 For a somewhat similar view of a gabled structure with wing projecting forward, cf. the House 

 of Argus and Io in Herculaneum, Zahn, Die schoensten Ornantente, etc. Vol. ii, plate 83. 

 * Cf. the following three numbers. 



