NEAPOLITAN SCHOOL (20TH CENTURY)
MOUNT VESUVIUS ERUPTING AT NIGHT
Gouache on paper
23 x 41cm (9 x 16in.)

Provenance:
The Collection of Duncan Campbell and Luke Edward Hall

The present work probably depicts the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in early April 1906; the full moon was on the 9th April. Neopolitan school artists produced numerous versions of the subject to sell to tourists.
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