Vesuvius erupting Size:XS: 40 x 30cm looking off into the distance

looking off into the distance

one facing forward

Figure from page 124 of the book Curiosities of glass making with details of the processes and productions of ancient and modern ornamental glass manufacture by Apsley Pellatt (David Bogue

JOHN LESLIE (Physicien)

you will see the most beautiful circles of colours that imagination can conceive

Vesuvius erupting Size:XS: 40 x 30cm looking off into the distanceStudy of a lava flow on the slopes of Vesuvius during an eruption, with the volcano generating a high plume of smoke and ash. The colour and direction of flow are highlighted with coloured chalk and ink. Faintly inscribed in pencil, top left. An observation of volcanic activity at Mount Vesuvius near the Bay of Naples, Italy, made by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton. From volume 5 of Piaggio's notebooks for the period 1787 1792, within a