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A Very Victorian Spectacle

A Very Victorian Spectacle

This vivid little Neapolitan School gouache shows the 1839 eruption of Vesuvius from a slightly unsual viewpoint—part-way up the mountainside rather than the more typical (and more elegant) vantage point of across the waters of the Bay of Naples
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