A RELIEF-CARVED MARBLE 'GRAND TOUR' MODEL OF THE TOMB OF NÆVOLEIA TYCHE, ITALIAN, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Probably Robert Berkeley (1764-1845) between 1816-1818.

This model of the tomb of Nævoleia Tyche at Pompeii is one of the more unusual Grand Tour souvenirs, particularly when compared to more typical models of Scipios tomb and the Temples of Castor and Pollux etc. that were collected at that time. The Tyche tomb was excavated in 1812 and dates from the later Neronian Period. Tyche was a successful trader and the extravagant tombs she built for herself, outside the Herculaneum gate, and her husband, also a freed slave, are a demonstration of this.