- Scene: historic library / grand reading hall interior
- Architectural features: long barrel-vaulted/arched ceiling with frescoes/ornamental decoration; rows of columns/arcades
- Floor: large checkered/marble tiles
- Furnishings/objects: tall wooden bookcases along walls; several reading desks/tables; large armillary sphere or globe on a stand in foreground (left)
- Perspective: central aisle receding to a distant doorway
- People: none visible