Two vignettes at top showing trees surmounted by gold shields with the head of the Medusa. At the foot of one tree is a Dryad with a hatchet, the attribute of the guardian nymph of the forest. The two landscapes below show Nile scenes in Egypt with Anubis statues, a donkey, a crocodile, etc. 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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