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Commencement of the eruption of the Great Geyser

Image
Accession no.: Y: 54/35/3
Title: Commencement of the eruption of the Great Geyser
Description: Fine watercoloured engraving, one of a number of scenes of geysers in Iceland, relating to a journey made by John Thomas Stanley in 1789.
Medium: Engraving
Artist: Dayes, E.
Note: Probably by E. Dayes, 1790. Presented to SPRI by L.C.G. Clarke, 1954.
Dimensions: Image:
  • Width: 375mm; height: 275mm
Mount:
  • Width: 555mm; height: 405mm