This lithograph with tint stone by Victor Petit documents the Tower of the Port of Marseille, a fifteenth or sixteenth century French architectural monument featured as plate 34 in his ambitious portfolio "Architecture Pittoresque." Petit's detailed rendering captures the defensive tower's structural character through careful attention to masonry work and proportional relationships, employing the tint stone technique to create atmospheric depth and dimensional modeling. As part of a hundred plate survey of French Renaissance and late medieval fortifications and civic structures, this work represents the nineteenth century antiquarian interest in preserving the visual record of France's architectural heritage.