Page 291 from the book "De Roma Sotterranea" ("Rome Underground"), by Antoine Bosio. With an engraving depicting two sarcophagi from an early Christian cemetary; each with carvings of Biblical scenes and figures. The upper sarcophagus is depicted as damaged: at left, a carving of Noah has a broken-off hand and at right, a scene of Jonah being fed to the whale is half broken away on a diagonal. Italian text printed above and below describes the figure.
Watermark in paper; a rectangular shieldlike form with what may be an animal motif.
