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A current of lava flowing from Mount Vesuvius in 1777. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1779]Reference: 43756i
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Mount Vesuvius: interior of the crater showing the little mountain inside it, with spectators. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43636i
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Mount Vesuvius erupting: view from the south, with surrounding countryside and coastline. Coloured etching by F. Morghen, 1752, after F. Geri, 1752.
Geri, Francesco, active approximately 1752.Date: [1752]Reference: 42668i
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Pieces of lava and vitrified, flinty matter found after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1779]Reference: 43806i
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The island of Stromboli, smoke erupting from its peak. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776, after a drawing made by him in 1768.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43676i
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"Vulcan's cave" at the entrance to the Solfatara, near Naples: jets of steam emerging from the rock floor, watched by spectators. Etching.
Reference: 43896i
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Mount Vesuvius: a building at Ottajano destroyed by lava, 29 August 1834. Lithograph by F. Wenzel after H. Oates, 1834.
Oates, Harriette, active 1834?Date: [1834?]Reference: 43954i
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The outside of part of the cone of Solfatara showing lavas of different tints (yellow and grey). Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43647i
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People promenading down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Coloured lithograph by G. Dura, 1850.
Dura, Gaetano.Date: 1850Reference: 43622i
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Interior of the crater of one of the little mountains raised by the eruption of Vesuvius in 1760, with large and small fragments of larva. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43640i
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Lake Avernus (Lago d'Averno) and environs. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43669i
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Journal of a tour in Iceland, in the summer of 1809 / By William Jackson Hooker.
Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865.Date: 1813
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A boiling lake in Dominica, West Indies. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43950i
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Stones or crystals from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43731i
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Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the volcanos of the two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London / by Sir William Hamilton... with 54 plates ... from drawings taken ... by the editor, Mr. P. Fabris.--Observations sur les volcans des deux Siciles, etc.
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.Date: 1776
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Essai sur la théorie des volcans d'Auvergne / [Anon].
Montlosier, François-Dominique de Reynaud, comte de, 1755-1838.Date: An x, 1802
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A volcano (Mount Etna?) erupting at night. Coloured aquatint.
Reference: 43878i
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Considerations on volcanos; the probable causes of their phenomena, the laws which determine their march, the disposition of their products and their connexion with the present state and past history of the globe; leading to the establishment of a new theory of the Earth / [George Poulett Scrope].
Scrope, George Poulett, 1797-1876.Date: 1825
Archives and manuscripts
Gault de Saint Germain, Pierre Marie (1754-1842)
Gault de Saint Germain, Pierre Marie, 1754-1842Date: c. 1820 1839Reference: MS.2487
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Mount Vesuvius in quiescence by night, 1757, with the Bay of Naples and fishermen. Etching by R. Benard after Delarue.
De la Rue, draughtsman, active 18th century.Reference: 42903i
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Specimens of stone and volcanic matter found on Mount Vesuvius, including lava enclosed in marble. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43701i
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Mount Vesuvius in winter, covered with snow. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776, after his painting, ca. 1754.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43625i
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Die Vulkane älterer und neuerer Zeiten, physikalisch und mineralogisch betrachtet / Von Franz von Beroldingen.
Beroldingen, Franz Cölestin, Freiherr von, 1740-1798.Date: 1791
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Mount Vesuvius erupting dramatically in 1754, with three spectators looking on. Etching by R. Benard after Delarue.
De la Rue, draughtsman, active 18th century.Date: 1700-1799Reference: 42902i
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Mount Hekla, Iceland, seen from the sea. Etching.
Reference: 43897i