Fragments of different architectural paintings. Above, ornamented columns, a caryatid and an Ionic colonnade that suggests a portico or court (peristylium). Below, what seems to be the pronaos of a temple of Bacchus, indicated by the panther at the foot of a column. 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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