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14 Egerton, Wright of Derby , p. 178, cat. 108. It is unlikely that Wright
travelled so far south as Sicily; his View of Catania was probably
painted from some other artist's sketch and indeed may not depict
Catania.
15 'Memoirs of Thomas Jones'.
16 Ibid., p. 78.
17 Ibid., pp. 79-80.
18 Quoted Judy Egerton, Wright of Derby , cat. 67, pp. 129-30.
19 Faraday's Continental Diary, iet archives, published as Brian
Bowers and Lenore Symons, eds, 'Curiosity Perfectly Satisfied ':
Faraday's Travels in Europe, 1813-1815 (Stevenage, 1991), p. 108.
20 Ibid., p. 161.
21 Mary Somerville to Mrs Samuel Somerville, Naples, 1 March
1818. Dep. c360, msfp55, Somerville Papers, Somerville College,
held by the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
22 Cross-written letter, Mary Somerville to Revd Dr Somerville,
Naples, 24 March 1818. Dep. c360, msfp 44. Somerville Papers,
Somerville College, held by Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
23 Mrs Anna Jameson, A Lady's Diary (London, 1826).
24 Alwyn Scarth and Jean-Claude Tanguy, Volcanoes of Europe (Fairfax,
va, 2001), p. 171.
25 Gilbert White, Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (London,
1789), Letter lxv to Daines Barrington, 25 June 1787.
26 Haraldur Sigurdsson, ed., Encyclopedia of Volcanoes (San Diego, ca,
2000), pp. 10-11.
27 Lord Byron, Childe Harold 's Pilgrimage (London, 1816), canto iii,
v. 28.
28 J. M.W. Turner to James Holworthy, 11 September 1816, in John
Gage, ed., Collected Correspondence of J . M . W . Turner (Oxford, 1980),
no. 68.
29 Thomas Cayley to his sister Mary, from St Vincent, 30 August
1812. British Library, Add. ms 79532 c/1. See also report in
Philosophical Magazine , xl ( July-December 1812), pp. 66-71.
30 'Report of a Committee of the House of Commons containing an
account of the eruption of the Souffrière Mountain in St Vincent's',
given to the Geological Society on 21 May 1813.
31 Sam Smiles, 'Turner and the Slave Trade: Speculation and Represen-
tation 1805-40', British Art Journal , vii/3 (Winter 2007/8), pp. 47-54.
32 Diary of Hugh Perry Keane, Virginia Historical Society, vhs m 551
1 k 197a, 3-30.
33 Pencil sketches of the Bay of Naples, apparently drawn on the
flanks of Vesuvius, and studies of the approach to the crater, are in
Tate, London, Turner Bequest clxxxiv, 41a-44a.
34 S. Tillard, 'A Narrative of the Eruption of a Volcano . . . off the
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