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The valley Atrio di Cavallo between Vesuvius and Somma, showing smoke emerging from Vesuvius before eruption. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
- Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.
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- [1776]
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- 43673i
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Credit: The valley Atrio di Cavallo between Vesuvius and Somma, showing smoke emerging from Vesuvius before eruption. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
Vesuvius is portrayed with a purple colour, as it appears in the evening
Publication/Creation
[Naples] : [P. Fabris], [1776]
Physical description
1 print : etching, with gouache ; platemark 21.2 x 39.2 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
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 43673i