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 鈥楢ntichita 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.