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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.

    • Page, active 1775.
    Reference
    42973i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Felicura (Filicudi), one of the Lipari islands. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

    • Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    43749i
    • Pictures
  • On the effects of volcanic action in the production of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation, and in the production of hurricanes and abnormal atmospheric vicissitudes / by H.J. Johnston-Lavis.

    • Johnston-Lavis, H. J. (Henry James), 1856-1914.
    Date
    1914
    • Books
    • Online
  • A geyser, with a group of spectators, including an artist drawing. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Richter.

    • Richter, Johann Carl, 1759-1832.
    Reference
    43899i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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
    • Pictures
  • Panarea, one of the Lipari islands. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

    • Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    43747i
    • Pictures
  • 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
    • Online
  • The discovery of the temple of Isis at Pompeii, buried under pumice and other volcanic matter. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

    • Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    43680i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

    Date
    c.1795-1923
    Reference
    MS.7578
    • Archives and manuscripts
  • Mont Pelée, Martinique, in eruption, 1929. Halftone after a photograph by Underwood & Underwood.

    • Underwood & Underwood.
    Date
    1929
    Reference
    43929i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The Pisciarelli (a hot spring) issuing from the cone of the Solfatara, and a man bathing in the hot waters. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

    • Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    43645i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Lava, scoriae and pumice from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

    • Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    43728i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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
    • Books
  • 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
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Pozzuoli, with Monte Barbaro in the distance, right. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

    • Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784.
    Date
    [1776]
    Reference
    43648i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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
    • Books
    • Online
  • 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
    • Books
  • 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
    • Online
  • Entrance to the crater of the island of Amsterdam, Indian Ocean. Watercolour by E.H. Locker, 1804.

    • Locker, Edward Hawke, 1777-1849.
    Date
    11 October 1804
    Reference
    43911i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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
    1828
    Reference
    43014i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • 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
    • Online
  • 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
    • Online
  • 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
    • Online
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