'Vesuvius erupting' mb-code JS46737925 Rene Dreyfus is in car

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

Original: ink and watercolour on paper

his military cap on the table

Poppy field

'Vesuvius erupting' mb-code JS46737925 Rene Dreyfus is in carStudy 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