Mount Vesuvius in winter, covered with snow. Coloured etching by Pietro Fabris, 1776, after his painting, ca. 1754.

On Fabris's coloured prints for Hamilton's Campi phlegraei see B. Fothergill, Sir William Hamilton envoy extraordinary, New York 1969, pp. 138-143, and John Thackray, '"The modern Pliny": Hamilton and Vesuvius', in Ian Jenkins and Kim Sloan, Vases and volcanoes, London 1996, pp. 65-74

"N. 1 Cone of Vesuvius cover'd with snow, and the lava running in different streams from its crater. Vesuvius was in the same state in 1773: but it seldom happens that both mountains are cover'd with snow, as they were at the time above mention'd. … N.2 Mountain of Somma. N.3 High road from Naples to Portici. N.4 Old ruin'd towers near the sea."—Campi phlegraei, loc. cit.

[Naples] : [P. Fabris], [1776]

1 print : etching, with gouache ; platemark 21.3 x 39.6 cm

Wellcome Collection 43625i