The text depicts the castle of the Lithuanian dukes in Vilnius, which was rebuilt successively by Alexander Jagiellon and, after its destruction, by Sigismund I and Sigismund Augustus, who was said to be 'particularly fond of Vilnius' (Source: Tygodnik Illustrowany, Warsaw 1872, Series 2, T:10, pp. 192-193, after: University of Łódź Digital Library).