About the Artist
Joseph Wright of Derby
Born: Derby, England, 30 September 1734
Died: Derby, England, 29 August 1797
Nationality: English
Collection
Private Collection
Related works
Vesuvius from Posillipo, c. 1788 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Other Artists Painting Vesuvius
William Marlow, Vesuvius Erupting at Night, c. 1768 (Berger Collection, Denver Art Museum). Marlow was a British artist who visited Italy between 1765 and 1767. He may have witnessed the eruptions of March 1766 and March 1767.
Pierre-Jacques Volaire, The Eruption of Vesuvius, 1767 (Louvre, Paris)
Johan Christian Claussen Dahl, Eruption of Vesuvius, 1823 (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra)
Johann Christian Claussen Dahl, Vesuvius Erupting, 1826. Dahl (Norwegian) was a pupil and colleague of Caspar David Friedrich in Dresden.
Franz Ludwig Catel, The Crater of Vesuvius, 1812 (Kunsthalle, Hamburg)
Images
Vesuvius today
Map of the extent of the poisonous cloud of 79 that killed thousands in Pompeii and Herculaneum
Athanasius Kircher visited Vesuvius in the 1630s and engraved his drawing of it in Mundus Subterraneus Vesuvius (1664)