2-657-903 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Interior view of the Crater of Mount Vesuvius from an orginal drawing taken from the foot in the year of 1756, Plate X, from 'Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies', by Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), published 1776 (hand coloured engraving). shows how changes occur in this part of an active volcano, with little mountains being formed, linked by the flow of lava, down the cone of Vesuvius.