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  • The eruption of Mount Etna in 1669. Etching.
  • A volcano (Mount Etna?) erupting at night. Gouache painting.
  • 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 volcano (Mount Etna?) erupting at night. Coloured aquatint.
  • A volcano (Mount Etna?) erupting at night. Coloured aquatint.
  • An eruption of Mount Etna at night; people in a boat in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by F. Weber after A. d'Anna.
  • Mount Etna, snow-capped, by moonlight. Colour aquatint, 1815.
  • Mount Etna, with Catania below, and St Agatha being tortured with red-hot pincers in the lower margin. Engraving, 16--.
  • Recherches et observations naturelles de Monsieur Boccone ... touchant le corail, la pierre etoilée, les pierres de figure de coquilles, la corne d'ammon, l'astroïte undulatus, les dents de poissons pétrifiées, les herissons alterez, l'embrasement du mont Etna, la sangsüe du Xiphias, l'alcyonium stupposum, le bezoar mineral & les plantes qu'on trouve dans la Sicile, avec quelques reflexions sur la vegetation des plantes : examinées à diverses fois dans l'Assemblée de messieurs de Société Royale de Londres, & conferences dans les de Monsieur l'Abbe Bourdelot à Paris / [Paolo Boccone].
  • The forge of Vulcan: he sits by the forge as his assistants work on iron at the anvil. Engraving by Georges Reverdy.