Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Moorfields now wearing the crown of

now wearing the crown of the newly unified Germany

15th January 1972

Historian and Antiquary

with the Lord Mayor on the far left in his coach

Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Moorfields now wearing the crown ofLandscape dominated by an erupting Mount Vesuvius seen from across a bay from Naples [?] with ships sailing and docked in the port. Numbered upper left 'fol. 171.' A decorative cartouche, upper right, bears a classical inscription: 'Hec ego Chalcidicis ad te, Marcelle, sonabam Litoribus fractas, ubi Vesbius egerit iras. Stat. Silu. Lib. 4. c. 4.' Text is from the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius, Sylvae book 4, who alludes to an eruption in