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Volcanoes

Natural, surface vent or fissure usually in a mountainous form

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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.
  • Mount Hekla, Iceland, seen from the sea. Etching.
  • The eruption of Mount Etna in 1669. Etching.
  • Campi Phlegraei. Observations on the volcanos of the two Sicilies as they have been communicated to the Royal Society of London / by Sir William Hamilton... with 54 plates ... from drawings taken ... by the editor, Mr. P. Fabris.--Observations sur les volcans des deux Siciles, etc.
  • Lava, scoriae and vitrified matter found after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 8 August 1779. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1779.
  • The Jorullo volcano, Mexico. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
  • Geology: the ages of the Earth and details of types of stone. Coloured lithograph by Bethmont, 1911, after himself.
  • "Vulcan's cave" on the Solfatara, near Naples, showing volcanic gases and the processing of alum. Etching by Bénard after Delarue.
  • Entrance to the crater of the island of Amsterdam, Indian Ocean. Watercolour by E.H. Locker, 1804.
  • The outside of part of the cone of Solfatara showing lavas of different tints (yellow and grey). Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.
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Vesuvius (Italy)
Etna, Mount (Italy)
Geology
Mountains
South America
Volcanic gases
Lipari Islands (Italy)