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An image of a fan with three depictions of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. From left to right: a tall mountain with smoke, a shallow mountain in the black of night erupting with a column of lava, and a shallow mountain with a swirl smoke.

Fan Design with Eruption of Vesuvius and Three Views, 18th ca., Anonymous, Italian, 18th century, watercolor and gouache on vellum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1938, 38.91.105