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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- Digital Images
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Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, 1674
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People promenading down the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Coloured lithograph by G. Dura, 1850.
Dura, Gaetano.Date: 1850Reference: 43622i- Books
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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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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Mount Hekla, Iceland, seen from the sea. Etching.
Reference: 43897i- Pictures
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Mount Vesuvius in eruption at night, showing the Bay of Naples in the foreground with a sailing boat, and spectators on the opposite shore. Painting in gouache, 1829.
Date: 1829Reference: 43020i- Pictures
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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.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.Reference: 42985i- Pictures
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Mounts Chimborazo and Carguairazo, snowcapped. Coloured aquatint by F. Arnold after J. Gmelin after A. von Humboldt.
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.Reference: 43919i- Digital Images
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Septieme Lettre a Monsieur L'abbe Bourdelot, 1674
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An eruption of Vesuvius at night, 1829, showing the inside of the crater with smoke, fire and lava, and spectators looking on. Coloured aquatint.
Date: 1829Reference: 43079i- Books
British regional geology : Scotland, the Tertiary volcanic districts / by J. E. Richey.
Richey, J. E. (James Ernest), 1886-Date: 1935- Pictures
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Mount Vesuvius in eruption at night, with smoke, fire and lava, over the Bay of Naples. Gouache, 1810.
Date: 1810Reference: 42990i- Pictures
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Lava emerging from Mount Vesuvius at night and running towards Resina, 11 May 1771. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776, after a drawing made by him in 1771.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43677i- Pictures
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Mont Pelée, Martinique, in eruption, 1929. Halftone after a photograph by Underwood & Underwood.
Underwood & Underwood.Date: 1929Reference: 43929i- Archives and manuscripts
Volcano (artwork)
Date: c1940s-1980sReference: PP/RSI/B/2/5/9Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
On the structure and distribution of coral reefs : also geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle / by Charles Darwin.
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.Date: 1890- Pictures
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An eruption of Mount Etna at night, possibly in 1787. Coloured mezzotint by J.-M. Mixelle after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d'Date: [1787?]Reference: 43877i- Books
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Travels in the two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines / Translated from the original Italian. Of the Abbé Lazzaro Spallanzani.
Spallanzani, Lazzaro, 1729-1799.Date: 1798- Pictures
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The eruption of Mount Etna in 1669. Etching.
Reference: 43869i- Books
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The vulcano's: or, burning and fire-vomiting mountains, famous in the world: with their remarkables. Collected for the most part out of Kircher's Subterraneous world. And expos'd to more general view in English, upon the relation of the late wonderful and prodigious eruptions of AEtna. Thereby to occasion greater admirations of the wonders of nature (and of the God of nature) in the mighty element of fire ... / [Athanasius Kircher].
Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680.Date: 1669- Pictures
A boiling lake in Dominica, West Indies. Wood engraving.
Reference: 43950i- Pictures
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Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland. Coloured aquatint by J. Clark, 1811, after H. Holland.
Mackenzie, George Steuart, 1780-1848.Date: 1811Reference: 43941i- Pictures
Mount Etna: subsidiary cones between Mount Etna and the sea. Etching.
Reference: 43881i