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The Midday Meal
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© National Gallery of Art

From the Collection: 

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Illustrator: 

Morland, George

Image Date: 

c. 1790s

Style: 

  • Ethnographic sketch

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Column of Smoke Issuing Thirty Miles High from Vesuvius

Two dark figures stand near a canoe in the front right foreground. Far behind them is an empty town at the base of Mount Vesuvius. The volcano emits swirling grey smoke which covers the top three...
Engraver: Hamilton, William
1823
From the Collection:
Department of Special Collections, Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
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