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  • Mount Vesuvius erupting at night, billowing clouds and flashes of lightning, and with many spectators viewing the event across the bay of Naples. Coloured mezzotint with etching by J.M. Mixelle after A. d'Anna.
  • Mount Vesuvius erupting violently at night over the bay of Naples, with two spectators and a guard on watch from the castle in the foreground. Gouache painting.
  • Mount Vesuvius erupting: view from the south, with surrounding countryside and coastline. Coloured etching by F. Morghen, 1752, after F. Geri, 1752.
  • Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, 1674
  • Mount Vesuvius in eruption at night, with smoke, fire and lava, over the Bay of Naples. Gouache, 1810.
  • An eruption of Vesuvius at night, 1829, showing the inside of the crater with smoke, fire and lava, and spectators looking on. Coloured aquatint.
  • People promenading down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Coloured lithograph by G. Dura, 1850.
  • Mount Vesuvius at night, showing an eruption of smoke fire and lava at its base, with boats on the Bay of Naples in the foreground.
  • Mount Vesuvius by night, erupting with smoke, fire, and lava, with houses on the Bay of Naples. Etching with engraving by Page.
  • Mount Vesuvius erupting violently at night over the bay of Naples, with two spectators and a guard on watch from the castle in the foreground. Gouache painting.
  • Mount Vesuvius erupting dramatically in 1754, with three spectators looking on. Etching by R. Benard after Delarue.
  • Vesuvius in eruption, with spectators on the beach at Naples and the Neapolitan skyline in the foreground. Colour process print after J.M.W. Turner.
  • Mount Vesuvius erupting violently at night over the bay of Naples, with two spectators and a guard on watch from the castle in the foreground. Gouache painting.
  • Mount Vesuvius in eruption at night, with smoke, fire, and lava, over the Bay of Naples. Gouache, 1794.
  • Mounts Chimborazo and Carguairazo, snowcapped. Coloured aquatint by F. Arnold after J. Gmelin after A. von Humboldt.
  • Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, 1674
  • Mount Cotopaxi, snowcapped. Aquatint by F. Arnold after J. Gmelin after A. von Humboldt.
  • Mont Pelée, Martinique, in eruption, 1929. Halftone after a photograph by Underwood & Underwood.
  • The Porto Pavone on the island of Nisida, showing the curved sides of a sunken crater; Pietro Fabris sketching and Sir William Hamilton in the foreground. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • The discovery of the temple of Isis at Pompeii, buried under pumice and other volcanic matter. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
  • The eruption of Mount Etna in 1669. Etching.
  • An eruption of Mount Etna at night, possibly in 1787. Coloured mezzotint by J.-M. Mixelle after A. d'Anna.
  • Mount Etna and the nearby countryside. Engraving by W. Byrne and T. Medland, 1788, after J. Smith.
  • The eruption of Mount Etna in 1669. Etching.
  • A volcanic eruption in Herculaneum (?), showing the advance of lava flow over walls, with Vesuvius visible in the background. Gouache painting, 1861.
  • Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark, 1811, after H. Holland.
  • A cauldron of boiling mud on a sulphur mountain, Iceland. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark, 1811, after Sir George Mackenzie.
  • Mount Etna, snow-capped, by moonlight. Colour aquatint, 1815.
  • Mount Vesuvius: a building at Ottajano destroyed by lava, 29 August 1834. Lithograph by F. Wenzel after H. Oates, 1834.
  • A cauldron of boiling mud on a sulphur mountain, Iceland. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark, 1811, after Sir George Mackenzie.