Title: Eruption of Vesuvius, August 8, 1779
Object type: Prints
Date: 1779
Artist:  Louis Boily 
Artist bio: French, born 1735
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Printmaker
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Plate: 11 × 7 1/4 in. (28 × 18.4 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/4 × 7 3/8 in. (28.5 × 18.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Joel Kaye, in memory of Leo Lerman and Gray Foy, 2013
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Volcanoes