Aerial view of the theater district in Pompeii. The drawing is in landscape format. It is organized within a frame drawn in ink, except on the right-hand side edge. Traces of watercolor, ink and graphite are visible in the margins. Inscriptions appear on the verso.
The scene depicts the street of Stabia, the covered Odeon, the temples of Jupiter Melichias and Isis, the theater with its velum, the Samnite palestra, the triangular forum and the tholos track.