print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 2009,7081.18
- Description
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Men and women struggling among the rubble of a classical city to escape the eruption of a volcano, including a man in the left foreground standing by the body of a woman, holding a staff and pointing at the flaming mountainside in the background; illustration to an Lytton Bulwer's 'Last Days of Pompeii', after Cattermole; with scratched engraver's name.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1834-1892
- Dimensions
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Height: 186 millimetres
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Width: 128 millimetres
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Destruction of Pompeii AD 79
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)
- Acquisition date
- 2009
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2009,7081.18