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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

020. MS M.461, fols. 15v–16r

Livre des merveilles du monde

ca. 1460
France, probably Angers
281 x 220 mm
MS M.461, fols. 15v–16r

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1911

Campania

This complicated image shows a brass statue blowing a trumpet to signal the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which stands beside a city guarded by two images of women, old and young.