Mount Vesuvius emitting a column of smoke after its eruption on 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
- Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.
- Date:
- [1779]
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- 43804i
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View from Posillipo on 9 August 1779
Publication/Creation
[Naples] : [P. Fabris], [1779]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with gouache ; platemark 38.9 x 21 cm
References note
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
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Wellcome Collection 43804i
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