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    La Soufrière volcano on St Vincent

    Date
    1784
    Creator
    Frederick Polydore Nodder (1710 - 1804, British) , Painter
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    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 379mm
    width (painting): 338mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > volcano
    Description
    Plate 2 from the paper “An Account of Morne Garou, a Mountain in the Island of St. Vincent, with a Description of the Volcano on Its Summit. In a Letter from Mr. James Anderson, Surgeon, to Mr. Forsyth, His Majesty's Gardener at Kensington...”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.75 (1785), pp.16-31.

    Schematic painting showing the circumference of the crater, two lakes of water within it and a central cone issuing smoke. Other details include the forested slopes of the mountain with some hurricane-destroyed trees.

    Inscribed with publication details in pencil upper right. Signed and Inscribed lower left: “F.P.Nodder, Pinxt. 1784 from a sketch by Mr Anderson.”
    Associated place
    Credit
    © The Royal Society
    Image number
    RS.9780
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