Erupting volcanoes but on your wall not across your front yard . . . .no live lava and smoke involved. Painted by English artist Joseph Wright of Derby, who lived from 1734 to 1797. Did some nice things with oil paint and fireworks too. That’s coming up soon.

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"Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples." 18th c.
“Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples.” 18th c. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oberhausen_-_Gasometer_-_Der_sch%C3%B6ne_Schein_-_Vesuvius_in_Eruption,_with_a_View_over_the_Islands_in_the_Bay_of_Naples_(Wright_of_Derby)_01_ies.jpg
"Vesuvius from Portici." 1774-76.
“Vesuvius from Portici.” 1774-76. Art collection of the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 70 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Wright_of_Derby_-_Vesuvius_from_Portici.jpg

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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