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A plate to Sir William Hamilton’s, ‘Campi Phlegraei’, Naples 1776, vol.I. The Pisciarelli bath is described by Hamilton as a ‘bath of which the common people of Naples, and its neighbourhood, make great use in summer time for cutaneous diseases’.
Title
The Pisciarelli, a Hot Spring, Issuing from the Cone of the Solfatara, and a Man Bathing in the Hot Waters
Date
1776
Medium
etching & gouache on paper
Measurements
H 21.4 x W 39.5 cm
Accession number
43645i
Acquisition method
presumed to be part of the collection formed by Henry S. Wellcome