Mount Etna
Date
1751
Creator
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Chatelain (1710 - 1758, French) , Draughtsman
James Basire (1769 - 1822, British) , Engraver
James Basire (1769 - 1822, British) , Engraver
After
Richard Dalton (1715 - 1791, British) , Draughtsman
Object type
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (plate): 401mm
width (plate): 600mm
height (print): 549mm
width (print): 781mm
width (plate): 600mm
height (print): 549mm
width (print): 781mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape view of Mount Etna billowing smoke, shown from the coast.
Inscribed ‘R Dalton delin. Published according to Act of Parliament April 12th 1751. Chatelain & Basire Junr Sculp..View of Mount Aetna in Sicily (now called Mon Gibello) From lo Strozzo; with the range of huge black rocks which is continued along the sea coast for sixteen miles. Some of these rocks have been at different eruptions thrown with great violence from the cavity of the mountain, others have been formed from the liquid fiery matter, called by the Sicilians La Sciarra, that issued from the mountain in torrents and cooling grew hard. To John Frederick Esq. eldest Son of Sr. John Frederick Bart. In whose presence the drawing was made; this plate is humbly inscribed by his most obliged & obedient servant Richard Dalton.’
Inscribed ‘R Dalton delin. Published according to Act of Parliament April 12th 1751. Chatelain & Basire Junr Sculp..View of Mount Aetna in Sicily (now called Mon Gibello) From lo Strozzo; with the range of huge black rocks which is continued along the sea coast for sixteen miles. Some of these rocks have been at different eruptions thrown with great violence from the cavity of the mountain, others have been formed from the liquid fiery matter, called by the Sicilians La Sciarra, that issued from the mountain in torrents and cooling grew hard. To John Frederick Esq. eldest Son of Sr. John Frederick Bart. In whose presence the drawing was made; this plate is humbly inscribed by his most obliged & obedient servant Richard Dalton.’
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