Hand aquatint from the "A journey from India to England, through Persia, Georgia, Russia, Poland, and Prussia, in the year 1817" by Lieut. Col. John Johnson (1768 — 1846). Engraved by Theodore Henry Adolphus Fielding (1781 – 1851). The colossal 7m high statue of the Sasanian ruler Shapur I (c. 240-270 A.D.) in the Shapur Cave, carved from a single stalagmite, and repaired by the Iranian military.