19th century plan of Pompeii

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

Pompeii
London, Chapman & Hall, 1833. Original outline colour. Steel-engraving, 300 x 390mm.

Detailed plan of Pompeii with a prospect of the excavated ruins underneath. Insets are a plan of the House of Pansa on a trompe-l'oeil scroll and a map of the region including Naples and Vesuvius. Between map and prospect are elevations showing how the buildings would have looked before the eruption of AD 79.


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