Mount Vesuvius: interior of the crater showing the little mountain inside it, with spectators. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

On Fabris's coloured prints for Hamilton's Campi phlegraei see B. Fothergill, Sir William Hamilton envoy extraordinary, New York 1969, pp. 138-143, and John Thackray, '"The modern Pliny": Hamilton and Vesuvius', in Ian Jenkins and Kim Sloan, Vases and volcanoes, London 1996, pp. 65-74

The crater of Vesuvius as it was before the eruption of 1767

[Naples] : [P. Fabris], [1776]

1 print : etching, with gouache ; platemark 21.3 x 39.2 cm

Wellcome Collection 43636i