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The execution of rebels during the Rebellion in Naples and Sicily in 1647. Etching by J. Duplessi-Bertaux, with engraving by J. Aliamet, 1781.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child and Saint Gaetano, Saint Roch, Saint Martha, and Saint Januarius with scenes from a cholera epidemic below. Lithograph by F. Apicella, ca. 1884.

Family groups and travellers in Naples buy water from a water seller at a stand on the street corner. Coloured lithograph by Gatti and Dura.

A large family of fisher folk in Naples are gathered together around a fishing boat. Coloured lithograph by Gatti & Dura.

A Neapolitan woman has a cauldron of hot chestnuts in a basket to sell. Coloured lithograph by Cuciniello and Bianchi.

A public letter-writer sits at a desk reading what he has written with his quill pen. Coloured lithograph.

The city and bay of Naples from the land. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776.

A young woman dancing the tarantella. Coloured lithograph by G. Dura.

A young man and two smaller children in Naples stand around the stall of a man selling macaroni, eating what he gives them. Watercolour.

A woman dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Coloured lithograph by A.C. Ledoux (?).

Historia naturale di Ferrante Imperato napolitano nella quale ordinatamente si tratta della diversa condition di minere, pietre pretiose, ed altre curiosità. Con varie historie di piante, ed animali, sin'hora non date in luce / [Ferrante Imperato].

A young man dancing the tarantella. Coloured lithograph by G. Dura.

1837 Scene del cholera di Napoli.

C'era una volta l'Istituto : momenti e figure della ricerca scientifica tra guerra e ricostruzione / Giorgio Cavallo ; prefazione di Aldo A. Mola ; postfazione di Marco Antonio Aimo.

A water seller in Naples offers a glass of water as refreshment to a woman who is carrying a large bundle under her arm. Watercolour.

Am Fue̊ des Vesuv / Dietrich v. Engelhardt.

Rapporto sul cholera-morbus diretto al supremo magistrato di salute di Napoli, dalla sua Facoltà medica.

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Rapporto sul cholera-morbus diretto al supremo magistrato di salute di Napoli, dalla sua Facoltà medica.

Naples

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Images about Naples

Works from the collections

Rapporto sul cholera-morbus diretto al supremo magistrato di salute di Napoli, dalla sua Facoltà medica.

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