Mount Vesuvius as seen from the Bay of Naples, Italy, 1797. Smoke rising from the crater and lava flowing down the mountain side. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a sketch by Richard Duppa from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman and Rees, London, 1802.

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