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Mount Vesuvius in Repose ; Mount Vesuvius in Eruption [drawing].

Accession number
PML 146386, leaf 020
Published
18--.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item and accompanying index.
Item mounted as a frontispiece on leaf 20 of v. 10 of an extra-illustrated copy of D.E. William's The life and correspondence of Sir Thomas Lawrence (London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831).
Description
2 drawings (1 sheet).
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Two views of Mount Vesuvius on one sheet, one with ships on the water in the foreground (top) and the other showing the volcano in the midst of an eruption, with buildings and figures in the foreground (bottom).
Classification
Department