'Vesuvius erupting' mb-code JS46737925 Original: ink and watercolour on

Original: ink and watercolour on paper

A tired-looking man wearing a smock and a top hat stands beside two large baskets full of china made in the Staffordshire potteries

the girl is more humane

Poppy field

'Vesuvius erupting' mb-code JS46737925 Original: ink and watercolour onStudy of an energetic eruption with plumes of gas and ash, heavier ejected material is shown falling to earth. An observation of volcanic activity at Mount Vesuvius near the Bay of Naples, Italy, kept by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton. The sheet is pasted into volume 1 of Piaggio's notebooks for the period 1779 1781. Original: pencil and ink on paper. 1779