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4 Sir William Hamilton and the Lure of Vesuvius
1 Sir William Hamilton to Sir Joseph Banks, 14 June 1801, inserted
in vol. i of the Diary of Father Antonio Piaggio, Royal Society,
ms/2-9.
2 William Hamilton, Campi Phlegraei (Naples, 1776), vol. i, p. 5.
3 Ibid. Five letters to the Royal Society: 10 June 1776, 'Observations
on Mount Vesuvius etc.', to Earl of Morton, President of Royal
Society, pp. 14-20; Postscript, 3 February 1767, pp. 20-21; 'a plain
narrative of what came immediately under my observation, during
the late violent eruption, which began October 19 1767 …', 29
December 1767, to the Earl of Morton, pp. 22-32; 'On the landscape
and the inhabitants following the 1767 eruption', 4 October 1768,
to Matthew Maty, Secretary of Royal Society, pp. 33-6; 'An account
of a journey to Mount Etna', 17 October 1769, to Matthew Maty,
pp. 37-52; 'Remarks upon the Nature of the Soil of Naples, and its
Neighbourhood', 16 October 1770, to Matthew Maty, pp. 53-89.
Hamilton, Campi Phlegraei , vol. ii, map and 54 plates after Peter
Fabris, engraved and coloured.
Supplement: 'Account of the great eruption of Vesuvius . . .
August 1779'. Dated Naples 1779.
Hamilton, Campi Phlegraei , vol. iii, letter to Joseph Banks, President
of the Royal Society, London, dated Naples, 1 October 1779,
pp. 1-28, with five plates by Peter Fabris.
4 Hamilton, Campi Phlegraei , vol. i, p. 3, letter to Sir John Pringle,
President of the Royal Society of London, dated Naples, 1 May
1776.
5 Ibid., p. 18, letter 10 June 1766.
6 Anonymous letter, Naples, 13 August 1805; bl, Egerton ms 3700,
B. Barrett Collection, vol. xii, ff. 110-13b.
7 Hamilton, Campi Phlegraei , vol. ii, pl. 38.
8 Emilie Beck-Saiello, Le Chevalier Volaire: Un Peintre Français à
Naples au XVIII e Siècle , Centre Jean Bérard and Intitut Français de
Naples, 2004, fig. 5. See especially pp. 21 and 35.
9 Ian Jenkins and Kim Sloan, Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton
and his Collection , exh. cat., British Museum, London (1996), p. 114.
10 'Memoirs of Thomas Jones', 13 September 1778, Walpole Society ,
xxxii (1946-8), p. 77.
11 Joseph Wright to Richard Wright, 11 November 1774, transcribed
in Elizabeth E. Barker, 'Documents relating to Joseph Wright “of
Derby” (1734-97) - Letters', Walpole Society , lxxi (2008/9), p. 84.
12 Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby , exh. cat., Tate, London (1990), p.
166, cat. 101.
13 Joseph Wright to William Hayly, 31 August 1783. Quoted ibid.,
p. 11.
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