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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.

Reference

42973i

Felicura (Filicudi), one of the Lipari islands. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

43749i

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.

Date

1914

A geyser, with a group of spectators, including an artist drawing. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Richter.

Reference

43899i

Mount Vesuvius in eruption, 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.

Date

[1779]

Reference

43751i

A current of lava emerging from Mount Vesuvius, 1777. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.

Date

[1779]

Reference

43753i

The cone of Mount Vesuvius smoking before the eruption of 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.

Date

[1779]

Reference

43755i

Panarea, one of the Lipari islands. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

43747i

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the night of 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.

Date

[1779]

Reference

43803i

The discovery of the temple of Isis at Pompeii, buried under pumice and other volcanic matter. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

43680i

Miscellany: English, 18th-20th centuries

Date

c.1795-1923

Reference

MS.7578

Mont Pelée, Martinique, in eruption, 1929. Halftone after a photograph by Underwood & Underwood.

Date

1929

Reference

43929i

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.

Date

[1776]

Reference

43645i

Lava, scoriae and pumice from Mount Vesuvius. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

43728i

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.

Date

1890

An eruption of Mount Etna at night, possibly in 1787. Coloured mezzotint by J.-M. Mixelle after A. d'Anna.

Date

[1787?]

Reference

43877i

Pozzuoli, with Monte Barbaro in the distance, right. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

Date

[1776]

Reference

43648i

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.

Date

1773

Travels in the two Sicilies, and some parts of the Apennines / Translated from the original Italian. Of the Abbé Lazzaro Spallanzani.

Date

1798

Mount Vesuvius emitting a column of smoke after its eruption on 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.

Date

[1779]

Reference

43804i

Entrance to the crater of the island of Amsterdam, Indian Ocean. Watercolour by E.H. Locker, 1804.

Date

11 October 1804

Reference

43911i

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

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.

Reference

42935i

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.

Date

[1776]

Reference

43628i

Lava, scoriae and vitrified matter found after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.

Date

[1779]

Reference

43805i