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The Eruption of Vesuvius
Favre Petitpierre, French, 1802 – 1818ca. 1815
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Textile has four repeating scenes representing the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius as described in the letters of Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus. The boy reading is Pliny trying to be calm. One of the women is his mother. A visiting friend reproves their calmness. In purple-brown on white.
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- Title: The Eruption of Vesuvius
- Creator: Favre Petitpierre, French, 1802 – 1818
- Date Created: ca. 1815
- Location Created: Nantes, France
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
- Credit line: Bequest of Elinor Merrell
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