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Basalt

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  • Staffa Island: two seated men admiring the basalt formations. Photograph, 18--.
  • Island of Mull, Scotland: a volcanic cirque. Etching by G. Riboldi.
  • Island of Staffa, Scotland: basalt formations. Etching by G. Riboldi.
  • Basalt formations, described as rocks of the Cyclops. Coloured etching by J. Chapman, 1798.
  • Three columns of basalt, with fragments. Aquatint, 1816.
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    Saint-Benoît, La Réunion, Indian Ocean: a waterfall in the Rivière des Roches, seen from the lowest of three water levels. Aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1819, after J.J. Patu de Rosemont.

    Patu de Rosemont, Jean-Joseph, 1766-1818. | Date: [1819] | Reference: 2851748i
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    Island of Mull, Scotland: a volcanic cirque. Etching by G. Riboldi.

    Riboldi, Gaetano, active 1790-1825. | Reference: 43932i
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    The basaltic island of Castellamare. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

    Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784. | Date: [1776] | Reference: 43746i
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    Staffa Island: two seated men admiring the basalt formations. Photograph, 18--.

    | Reference: 15140i
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    Basalt formations, described as rocks of the Cyclops. Coloured etching by J. Chapman, 1798.

    | Date: Nov. 24 1798 | Reference: 43933i
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