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Adolf von Heydeck

Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from a Cave

1820
watercolor with graphite; framing lines in pen and black ink

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Mount Vesuvius was almost continuously active at the time that Adolf von Heydeck visited Naples, and erupted just two years after this drawing was completed.

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