'Vesuvius erupting' Product:Framed picture Whit Walkers in Manchesters Albert

Whit Walkers in Manchesters Albert Square

Wives and girlfriends of the Everton football team wave their last goodbye as the plane taking them off to Australia for a tour departs from Speke airport

22nd May 1987

Walker Sculpt

'Vesuvius erupting' Product:Framed picture Whit Walkers in Manchesters AlbertStudy of Vesuvius erupting, showing spiralling columns of gas and ash. Two detail drawings illustrate forms of pulsing ejections. Text below the drawing in Italian, ' del fumo seguente, ma sempre senza dileguarsi in ' An observation of volcanic activity at Mount Vesuvius near the Bay of Naples, Italy, made by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton. From volume 1 of Piaggio's notebooks for the period 1779 1781. Original: pencil on paper. 1780