Geologist Giambattista Brocchi and artist Giovanni De Min sketching Mount Somma, on the slopes of the volcano of Vesuvius, Naples, Italy. Veins of lava with basalt prisms. Le mont Somma du cote du Sud. Copperplate engraving by Giuseppe Dall'Acqua after Giovanni de Min directed by Giambattista Brocchi from Scipion Breislak’s Traite sur la Structure Exterieure du Globe, Treatise on the Exterior Structure of the Globe, Jean-Pierre Giegler, Milan, 1822.

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