Vesuvius erupting mb-code 1645652 ' A dust seller with

' A dust seller with a man climbing a ladder to the dust cart

View of Covent Garden Market with fruit and vegetable stalls in the piazza and an apple seller seated beneath a lamppost in the foreground

Circa 1st January 1958

flourishes his sabre

scene showing artists in front of the Royal Academy at Somerset House in London

Vesuvius erupting mb-code 1645652 ' A dust seller withObservation of volcanic activity at Vesuvius, made by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton. The drawing shows material ejected directly upward from the volcano with a scale of height based upon the mountain's size. A cloud of gas and ash is shown drifting to the viewer's right. From volume 1 of Piaggio's notebooks for the period 1779 1781. Original: pencil and ink on paper. 1779