Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Moorfields It moved to a new

It moved to a new location near Canary Wharf in 1982

'Muddleby Junction'

Showing the bridge decorated with flags and illuminated

15th January 1972

William Gilbert (1544-1603) was a pioneering natural philosopher

Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples Moorfields It moved to a newLandscape 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