A great poet, perhaps Aeschylus with his sceptre, dictating a tragedy. A woman kneels before a tragic mask. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano), Rome, 1790.

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