Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Size:XL: 90 x 60cm On his other side is

On his other side is Sir William Curtis in sailor's and John Bull

5th May 1974

The plate illustrates section III (pp

Parsonstown

He is sitting up and begging for humbugs from Napoleon

Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Size:XL: 90 x 60cm On his other side isLandscape dominated by an erupting Mount Vesuvius seen from across a bay from Naples [?] with ships sailing and docked in the port. Numbered upper left 'fol. 171.' A decorative cartouche, upper right, bears a classical inscription: 'Hec ego Chalcidicis ad te, Marcelle, sonabam Litoribus fractas, ubi Vesbius egerit iras. Stat. Silu. Lib. 4. c. 4.' Text is from the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius, Sylvae book 4, who alludes to an eruption in