Mount Vesuvius erupting. Different eruptions from different years. Imagery in the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, online at Gallica bnf.

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Vue du Cratère et de l’Irruption du Vésuve en l’année 1768. 1801-1803. French. Francesco Fidanza, artist (1747-1819). Piranesi frères, :Paris, engravers. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica BnF. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6500271n?rk=21459;2
Cenere del 1847: (vue générale de la baie de Naples et du Vésuve en éruption). ca. 1847. Italian. Artist not known. Gouache on paper. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica BnF. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10315690h?rk=1351938;0
Eruzione del 1839: (vue nocturne du Vésuve en éruption). ca. 1839-1880. Italian. Gouache. Artist not known. Gouache on paper. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica BnF. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10315723b?rk=1373397;2
Eruzione del 1812: (vue générale nocturne de la baie de Naples et Vésuve en éruption au premier plan). 1812-1880. Italian. Artist not known. Gouache on paper. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica BnF. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103156949?rk=1394856;4
Torre del Greco distrutta nel 1794: (vue du site et du Vésuve en éruption). 1800-1880. Italian. Artist not known. Gouache on paper. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica BnF. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10315693v?rk=1587990;4
Cratere del 1839: (vue du Vésuve en éruption). 1839-1880. Italian. Artist not known. Gouache on paper. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France/Gallica BnF. In the public domain due to age. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b103156966?rk=1609450;0
Le Mont Vésuve. View 70, Les Phénomènes et les curiosités de la nature. 1856. E. Lemaître, lithographer, Strasbourg. Text by Jean-Baptiste Munerelle. Published in Strasbourg. Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg. via the Bibliothèque nationale de France Gallica BnF. Artwork in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9127380v/f70.item

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