View of El Jorullo, a cinder cone volcano in Michoacán, central Mexico. "A mountain of scoriae and ashes 517m above the plains in the centre of a thousand small burning cones." Volcan de Jorullo. Copied from Alexander von Humboldt's Vues des Codilleres, 1810. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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