The top left shows a landscape with two columns supporting an architrave in front of ruins, and the top right shows a statue that could be a Leucothea, with a ship at sea and a country house. The central panel shows a magnificent country house, with multiple characters and a statue of Neptune. The bottom panel shows a square tower with windows, a building supported by arches in water, and a tomb in the distance. 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 volu
The top left shows a landscape with two columns supporting an architrave in front of ruins, and the top right shows a statue that could be a Leucothea, with a ship at sea and a country house. The central panel shows a magnificent country house, with multiple characters and a statue of Neptune. The bottom panel shows a square tower with windows, a building supported by arches in water, and a tomb in the distance. 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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