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Vesuvius and Somma from the Naples Mole

John Robert Cozens, 1782

A landscape drawing of Vesuvius and Somma from the Mole at Naples. In all probability painted from Nature in the Autumn of 1782 for William Beckford of Fonthill. A E Anderson donated 22 watercolours to the Ashmolean over a period of 16 years through the Art Fund.

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Title of artwork, date

Vesuvius and Somma from the Naples Mole, 1782

Date supported

1924

Medium and material

Watercolour

Dimensions

30 x 45 cm

Gifted by

A E Anderson

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