At top, a landscape showing warships in a harbour celebrating a victory - as indicated by the laurel branch on the stern. The buildings on land include a lighthouse and a castle or Praetorium. The vignette below shows the banks of the Nile with hippopotamus, crocodile and goose. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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