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Concept

Volcanoes

Images

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

    Fabris, Pietro, active 1756-1784. | Date: [1776] | Reference: 43749i
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    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
    • Archives and manuscripts

    An erupting volcano between two shapes

    Meredith, David Thomas, active approximately 1975-1989 | Date: 4 November 1975 | Reference: 3005814i
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
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    A geyser, with a group of spectators, including an artist drawing. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Richter.

    | Reference: 43899i
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