Scenes of classical ruins along the coast of the Bay of Pozzuoli, just west of Naples, popular with 18th-century visitors. The first 40 plates show the ruins of Pozzuoli and other Roman resort towns. Figures of travelers incorporated into most scenes. Each plate is dedicated to a prominent patron. Patrons include Lord Baltimore, Sir William Hamilton and Lady Catherine Hamilton, Count Razumovskii, and Count Orsini Rosenberg. The last six plates show Greek temple ruins around Paestum.
Frontispiece portrait of Ferdinand IV, King of Naples, also known as Ferdinand I, King of the Two Sicilies, in oval frame with coat of arms.
Plate 1 in first group is a map of the Bay of Pozzuoli ("Golfo di Baia") and the coast of Campania centered on Pozzuoli. Includes a plan showing dimensions of Roman ruins.
Most plates signed Filippo Morghen. Plates 2 through 6, second group, also signed: Ant. Jolli, dis.