All the figures in the medallions are copied from prints showing recently discovered Roman wall-paintings, from the nine volume work Le Antichità di Ercolano (1757-1792). The two larger medallions below the pockets show The Cupid Seller, discovered at the Villa Arianna in Stabiae, a subject much copied after its publication in 1762. Other images are drawn from wall paintings found at Cicero's Villa in Pompeii. The waistcoat was formerly in the Robinson Collection.