78 results filtered with: Vesuvius (Italy)
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Mount Vesuvius by night, erupting with smoke, fire, and lava, with houses on the Bay of Naples. Etching with engraving by Page.
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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius; lava covering dwellings. Gouache painting by Mauton, 1834.
Mauton (Painter in Naples)Date: 1834Reference: 575687i- Pictures
Mount Vesuvius in eruption, 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1779]Reference: 43751i- Pictures
A current of lava emerging from Mount Vesuvius, 1777. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1779]Reference: 43753i- Pictures
The cone of Mount Vesuvius smoking before the eruption of 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1779]Reference: 43755i- Books
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Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal Society, from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton, K. B. F. R. S. His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of Naples, to which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]- Pictures
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The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the night of 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1779]Reference: 43803i- Pictures
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Lava, scoriae and pumice from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43728i- Books
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Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and other volcanos: in a series of letters, addressed to the Royal Society / from the Honourable Sir W. Hamilton ... ; to which are added, explanatory notes by the author, hitherto unpublished.
Hamilton, William, Sir, 1730-1803.Date: 1773- Pictures
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The dockside in Naples: a man is cooking snails in a pot over an open fire, while another man reads aloud from a book by Ariosto. Watercolour painting.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 30531i- Pictures
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An eruption of Mount Vesuvius at night; boat and two men in the foreground. Coloured aquatint by J.W. Edy after J. More, 1800.
More, Jacob, 1740-1793.Date: 7 April 1800Reference: 575701i- Books
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Observations on the manners and customs of Italy, with remarks on the vast importance of British commerce on that continent; also, particulars of the wonderful explosion of Mount Vesuvius, Taken on the Spot at Midnight, in June, 1794, When the beautiful and extensive City of Torre del Greco was buried under the blazing River of Lava from the Mountain; Likewise, AN Account Of Very Many Extraordinary Cures Produced BY A Preparation Of Opium, In A Variety Of Obstinate Cases, According To The Practice In Asia; With many Physical Remarks collected in Italy, well deserving the Attention of most Families. By a gentleman authorised to investigate the commerce of that country with Great-Britain.
Brooke, N.Date: 1798- Pictures
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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]Reference: 43804i- 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. Gouache, 1828.
Date: 1828Reference: 43014i- Pictures
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Mount Vesuvius erupting at night, billowing clouds and flashes of lightning, and with many spectators viewing the event across the bay of Naples. Coloured mezzotint with etching by J.M. Mixelle after A. d'Anna.
Anna, Alessandro d'Reference: 42935i- Pictures
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A quarry from which stones were cut to make the pavements of Naples, showing strata of lava from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43628i- Pictures
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Family groups and travellers in Naples buy water from a water seller at a stand on the street corner. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and Dura.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 30250i- Pictures
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Lava, scoriae and vitrified 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: 43805i- Pictures
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Polished schists of marble and other mixed stones from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43727i- Pictures
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The bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius erupting and covered in snow, 6 January 1836. Gouache painting by Mauton, 1836.
Mauton (Painter in Naples)Date: 1836Reference: 575683i- Pictures
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Tufa at the bottom of the crater of Monte Nuovo near Pozzuoli, formed in a volcanic eruption in 1538. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43650i- Books
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Sketches of Vesuvius, with short accounts of its principal eruptions. From the commencement of the Christian era to the present time / By John Auldjo.
Auldjo, John, 1805-1886.Date: 1833- Pictures
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Mount Vesuvius at night, showing an eruption of smoke fire and lava at its base, with boats on the Bay of Naples in the foreground.
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Figures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating Vesuvius during its eruption. Engraving by J. Wangner after G. Eichler the younger, ca. 1759.
Eichler, Gottfried, 1715-1770.Date: [between 1758 and 1760?]Reference: 92i- Pictures
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Six pieces of lava from inside the crater of Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.Date: [1776]Reference: 43698i