Pietro Fabris
Illustration — Uncovering Ruins of Temple of Isis at Pompeii • Illustration — Phlegrean Fields after Eruption of Vesuvius 1760-1761 Pietro Fabris (active 1740 – 1792) was a painter of Italian descent, active in England and Naples. Pietro is best known for work he completed for the dilettante geologist, the diplomat Sir William Hamilton, which included a number of engravings based on his paintings that depicted contemporary volcanic activity collected in two books, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, &c. (London, 1774) and Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies (Naples, 1776).
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Pietro Fabris
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- 1740 · Naples.
- Died
- 1792
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Born at Naples in 1740, died in 1792.
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