Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Size:XL: 90 x 60cm View of St Mary

View of St Mary

and took the name of Nuffield

5th May 1974

taking a stroll with Pete John who stood in for "Bottom" to be played by producer and director Robert Atkins

Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Size:XL: 90 x 60cm View of St MaryLandscape dominated by an erupting Mount Vesuvius seen from across a bay from Naples [?] with ships sailing and docked in the port. Numbered upper left 'fol. 171.' A decorative cartouche, upper right, bears a classical inscription: 'Hec ego Chalcidicis ad te, Marcelle, sonabam Litoribus fractas, ubi Vesbius egerit iras. Stat. Silu. Lib. 4. c. 4.' Text is from the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius, Sylvae book 4, who alludes to an eruption in