Sir William Hamilton's Vesuvian apparatus

Apollo, May, 2004 by Bent Sorensen

(20) Pierre Francastel, 'Les transparents de Carmontelle, L'lllustration, 1 August 1929, no. 4511, p. 159; Georges Poisson, 'Un transparent de Carmontelle', Bulletin de la Societe de l'histoire de l'Art francais, 1984, pp. 170-75.

(21) Lillian B. Miller in Edgar P. Richardson, Brooke Hindle and Lillian B. Miller, Charles Willson Peale and His World, New York, 1982, pp. 185-87.

(22) Daniel Lysons, Collectanea; or A Collection of Advertisements from the Newspapers, 1661-1840; five scrapbooks at British Library (1889.e.5), vol. II p. 164. Cited alter Richard D. Altick, The Shows of London, Cambridge, Mass., and London, 1978, p. 96.

(23) Ingamells, op. cit., p. 287.

(24) Carlo Knight, 'La quadreria di Sir William Hamilton a Palazzo Sessa', Napoli Nobilissima, vol. XXIV, 1985, p. 51.

(25) Memoirs of Thomas Jones, Penkerrig, Radnorshire, 1803, Walpole Society, vol. XXXII, London, 1951, p. 12.

(26) Altick, op. cit., p. 119, the handbill advertising the attractions are reproduced on p. 124.

(27) Archivo General de Palacio, Madrid, Carlos IV Principe, Legajo 47. Cited after Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, 'Noterelle su Volaire', in Melanges en hommage a Pierre Rosenberg: Peintures et dessins en France et en Italie XVIIIe-XVIIIe siecles, Paris, 2001, p. 219, note 4.

(28) Altick, op. cit., p. 115.

(29) Benjamin Silliman, A journal of travels in England, Holland, and Scotland, and of two passages over the Atlantic, in the years 1805 and 1806, New York, 1810, vol. i, pp. 199-200. Cited after Altick, op. cit., p. 96.

(30) Alexandra R. Mushy, Visions of Vesuvius, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1978; Mark A. Cheetham, 'The Taste for phenomena: Mount Vesuvius and transformations in late 18th-Century European landscape depiction', Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch, XLV, 1984, pp. 131-44; Madeleine Pinault, Le Peintre et l'histoire naturelle, Paris, 1990, pp. 256-59.

(31) Benedict Nicolson, Joseph Wright of Derby, Painter of Light, London, 1968; Judy Egetton, Wright of Denby, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London, 1990.

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