A View of the Ruins of Palmyra alias Tadmor taken on the Southern side

Topographical book illustration of the ancient Parthian ruins at Palmyra (Tadmor), Syria; foreground, rocks, fallen capitals and columns, a small tree, plants and three men one of whom holds a pole; middleground, a fallen frieze, fallen capitals, fallen and standing columns and figures including a woman with a child, two women conversing, a traveller, a man conversing with a woman, two Syrian? guides? on horseback and a seated sightseer sketching? / note taking?; background, distant hills, two mules and ancient ruins featuring a castle, temples, sepulchres and a portico; sky, cumulus clouds. Black border. Ruling machine used for the sky. Paper cut to plate marks. Brown staining, some foxing and seven vertical creases. Text on image, topographical labels, 'The Temple now inhabited', 'The Portico', 'The Sepulchres', 'The little Temple' and 'The Castle'