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© METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Fig. 27. UNKNOWN ITALIAN, Fan Design with Eruption of Vesuvius
and theTomb ofVirgil, 1779, watercolor and gouache on vellum.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NewYork, Harris Brisbane Dick
Fund, 1938.
Fig, 28. CHARLES LOUIS CLÉRISSEAU, Virgil’sTomb with a distant view
of Posillipo, Pen, pencil, grey and brown washes 198 x 304mm.
Undated, probably 1755. Soane Museum, London.
Fig. 29. DOMENICO CUNEGO after Charles Louis Cunego,
Tomb of Virgil, c. 1767, etching.
Fig. 30. GIOVANNI VOLPATO after Claude François Nicolé,
Virgil’sTomb from Paolo Antonio Paoli Avanzi delle antichità esistenti
a Pozzuoli, Cuma e Baja, c. 1768, etching and engraving.
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