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  • Messina, Sicily, Italy: ruins after an earthquake. Coloured aquatint, 1812.
  • Messina Port, Messina, Sicily, Italy: with a numbered key. Tinted etching.
  • Messina Port, Messina, Sicily, Italy: St. John's Square, with a key. Tinted etching.
  • Messina, Sicily, Italy: map of the port; with numbered key. Tinted aquatint after Villamaga, 1699.
  • Hospital, Messina, Sicily, Italy: the central square with a numbered key. Tinted etching by J. Deny, 1783.
  • A man seated at his desk with a map of southern Italy and Sicily before him. Gouache painting, ca. 1800.
  • 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].
  • Fountain of Arethusa, Syracuse, Sicily: artists sketching laundry women at work. Etching with aquatint by W. Wilkins, 1807.
  • Agriculture: peasants gathering manna from trees in Sicily and packing it in boxes marked "Herring Brothers London". Lithograph, c.1850.
  • Anapo river, Sicily: clumped papyrus grass (Cyperus papyrus) being examined by two people in a rowing boat. Lithograph after J.H. Allan, ca. 1843.
  • Anapo river, Sicily: clumped papyrus grass (Cyperus papyrus) being examined by two people in a rowing boat. Lithograph after J.H. Allan, ca. 1843.
  • Saint Peter sending Saint Martianus to Syracuse. Engraving.
  • Principles of geology, being an attempt to explain the former changes of the earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation / By Charles Lyell, esq.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
  • A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.