View of the Boiling Spring in Iceland Called the Great Geyser

Print, lithograph, VIEW OF THE BOILING SPRING IN ICELAND CALLED THE NEW GEYSER [also known as the Great Geyser]. On Stone by J. Baynes, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel; From a Drawing taken on the Spot by Sir John Thomas Stanley Bart (1766-1850). 1789 [1789-1794?] c38x28cm., image 23.5x17.8cm. Plates from a book? An artist is shown among the awed visitors at the scene. Stanley's unillustrated accounts of the hot springs near Rykum and Haukadal, in Iceland, were published in two letters to Dr J Black, 1791, with Black's analysis of their waters; and in the Royal Society of Edinburgh Transactions, vol.3 Pt 2, I, 1794, p127-137 and p138-153.