Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Moorfields she is treated like a

she is treated like a devi or goddess

with the Lord Mayor on the far left in his coach

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Exterior view of the poor debtors' room at Fleet Prison

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Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Moorfields she is treated like aLandscape dominated by an erupting Mount Vesuvius seen from across a bay from Naples [?] with ships sailing and docked in the port. Numbered upper left 'fol. 171.' A decorative cartouche, upper right, bears a classical inscription: 'Hec ego Chalcidicis ad te, Marcelle, sonabam Litoribus fractas, ubi Vesbius egerit iras. Stat. Silu. Lib. 4. c. 4.' Text is from the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius, Sylvae book 4, who alludes to an eruption in