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(1870) + Add to album Loss of His Majestys Ship the Porpoise, and the East India ship the Cato, on Wreckreef in the Southsea 1804 [i e 1803] ([1808 or 1809?]) + Add to album Rough sketch of the wreck of the Tyne on the 6th July 1845 ([1845?]) + Add to album The wreck of the Victory, Wickliffe Bay. (July 1862) + Add to album (48) The conflagration (3 Feb[ruar]y [1845]) + Add to album Mount Vesuvius. Changing shape of the little mountain within it, 8 July - 29 October 1767. (1776) + Add to album Eruption of Vesuvius, from the Mole of Naples, 20th of October, 1767 (1776) + Add to album Mount Vesuvius from the sea shore above Resina. (1776) + Add to album Interior view of the Crater of Mount Vesuvius, as it was before the great Eruption of 1767 (1776) + Add to album Interior View of the Crater of Mount Vesuvius, taken in the year 1756 (1776) + Add to album Mount Vesuvius: a volcanic eruption at the foot of the mountain, 1760-1761 (1776) + Add to album Little mountains raised in 1760 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, inland and offshore. (1776) + Add to album View of the Crater, or inside of the Cone of the little mountain (1776) + Add to album Lava emerging from Mount Vesuvius at night and running towards Resina, 11 May 1771 (1776) + Add to album Herding the animals to market; and the aftermath of the flood. (1808) + Add to album The Crew in difficulties, near Manfaloot (10 December 1863) + Add to album 1. Albion Mills March 3rd 1840 (1841) + Add to album Downing's Floor Cloth Manufactory, King's Road (1830) + Add to album Corporation Row, Finsbury (ca.1867) + Add to album Crane Court (ca.1840) + Add to album [Fire in Philadelphia] / J. Queen. (1850 - 1869) + Add to album [U.S. Capitol after burning by the British] (1814) + Add to album [Firehouse scene showing firemen leaving firehouse pulling a hand-drawn fire engine] (ca. 1857) + Add to album Les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee commandees par Dumont-Durville et Jacquinot; la corvette l'Astrolabe est arretee par une glace a la sortie de la Banquise, passages antarctiques, a fevrier 1838 / watercolour by A. Mayer (February 1838) + Add to album Item 01: The perilous situation of The Guardian Frigate as she appeared striking on the rocks of ice - with the departure of the crew - and the wonderful intrepidity of the Commander Lieutenant Riou / [possibly by Robert Dighton] (ca. 1790) + Add to album Lost, 1877 / Samuel Thomas Gill (1877) + Add to album Black Thursday 1850 The Track of Death (1850) + Add to album The Discovery on the Rocks in Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1792? / Zachariah Mudge (1792?) + Add to album Burning of the Garden Palace from Eaglesfield, Darlinghurst, sketched at 5.55am, Sep 22/82 / watercolour by unknown artist (1882) + Add to album The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (ca. 1834-1835) + Add to album The Pantheon, the Morning after the Fire (1792) + Add to album Distant View of Vesuvius, by Sunset. Verso: Sketch of Mountain Tops, or Cliffs and Rocks (1839) + Add to album An Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (1839) + Add to album Buffalo Turning on His Pursuers (1858-1860) + Add to album Prairie on Fire (1858-1860) + Add to album Wreck of the Salween, South Shields Sands (1895) + Add to album Lodewijk Napoleon bezoekt de ruïnes op het Rapenburg te Leiden na de ontploffing van het kruitschip op 12 januari 1807 (1807 - 1809) + Add to album Breaking up of a Wreck at Tynemouth (1826) + Add to album Wreck of the Betsy Cains on the rocks at Battery Point, Tynemouth (1827) + Add to album Eruption of Vesuvius of 179? From the series Views of Naples (1790s) + Add to album Avalanche of snow from a roof. (1847-1850.) + Add to album Shipwreck and halt on the great Winipesi Lake, Oct. 23, 1821. (1821) + Add to album Wreck of the Windsor Castle ship. ([between 1884 and 1890]) + Add to album A bush fire to the north of Mount Moriac ... [picture] (1854) + Add to album [Bushfire] [art original]. ([ca. 1873-ca. 1908]) + Add to album H.M.S. Challenger in Cook Straits, New Zealand and man lorst over-bord, [i.e. lost overboard] June 28th [art original] / John Arthur. (1874) + Add to album Crimea St. under flood 1880. ([1880]) + Add to album But by prompt measures, prevents serious consequences [art original] ([ca. 1842-ca. 1878]) + Add to album Person on a raft, in rough seas [picture] / S. Prout Hill. ([1856?]) + Add to album [An escape from the first gaol] [picture]. ([ca. 1875]) + Add to album main sketchbook: Farming Family made Homeless by Flood (naive watercolour) v: animal studies (1835-1840) + Add to album Fire at the Winter Palace on 17 December 1837 (1838) + Add to album Explosion of a Wooden Bridge at the Leipzig Gate on 7 (19) October 1813 (Late 1810s) + Add to album The Fire in the Winter Palace on 17 December 1837 (1838) + Add to album The Fire of Moscow (Early 19th century) + Add to album Fire of Smolensk (1816) + Add to album 1234Next Last Wreck of the Wolverine (offloading) (1855) Courtesy of LM Library | Public Domain Wreck of the Wolverine (coming ashore) (1855) Courtesy of LM Library | Public Domain [War-time desolation] ([ca. 1916]) Alexander Turnbull Library | All Rights Reserved Wreck of the barque May Queen, Lyttelton Heads 1888. (1888 - 1910 - 1919) Alexander Turnbull Library | All Rights Reserved Great fire at Port Lyttelton. (1870) Alexander Turnbull Library | All Rights Reserved Loss of His Majestys Ship the Porpoise, and the East India ship the Cato, on Wreckreef in the Southsea 1804 [i e 1803] ([1808 or 1809?]) Alexander Turnbull Library | All Rights Reserved Rough sketch of the wreck of the Tyne on the 6th July 1845 ([1845?]) Alexander Turnbull Library | All Rights Reserved The wreck of the Victory, Wickliffe Bay. (July 1862) Alexander Turnbull Library | All Rights Reserved (48) The conflagration (3 Feb[ruar]y [1845]) Alexander Turnbull Library | All Rights Reserved Mount Vesuvius. Changing shape of the little mountain within it, 8 July - 29 October 1767. (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved Eruption of Vesuvius, from the Mole of Naples, 20th of October, 1767 (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved Mount Vesuvius from the sea shore above Resina. (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved Interior view of the Crater of Mount Vesuvius, as it was before the great Eruption of 1767 (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved Interior View of the Crater of Mount Vesuvius, taken in the year 1756 (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved Mount Vesuvius: a volcanic eruption at the foot of the mountain, 1760-1761 (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved Little mountains raised in 1760 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, inland and offshore. (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved View of the Crater, or inside of the Cone of the little mountain (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved Lava emerging from Mount Vesuvius at night and running towards Resina, 11 May 1771 (1776) Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved Herding the animals to market; and the aftermath of the flood. (1808) image © The Bromley-Davenport Family Collection | All Rights Reserved The Crew in difficulties, near Manfaloot (10 December 1863) Courtesy of the Egerton-Warburton Collection | All Rights Reserved 1. Albion Mills March 3rd 1840 (1841) Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales | Out of copyright Downing's Floor Cloth Manufactory, King's Road (1830) image © London Metropolitan Archives (City of London) | All Rights Reserved Corporation Row, Finsbury (ca.1867) image © London Metropolitan Archives (City of London) | All Rights Reserved Crane Court (ca.1840) image © London Metropolitan Archives (City of London) | All Rights Reserved [Fire in Philadelphia] / J. Queen. (1850 - 1869) Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-50660 | No known restrictions on publication. [U.S. Capitol after burning by the British] (1814) Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-23076 | No known restrictions on publication. [Firehouse scene showing firemen leaving firehouse pulling a hand-drawn fire engine] (ca. 1857) Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-6305 | No known restrictions on publication. Les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zelee commandees par Dumont-Durville et Jacquinot; la corvette l'Astrolabe est arretee par une glace a la sortie de la Banquise, passages antarctiques, a fevrier 1838 / watercolour by A. Mayer (February 1838) Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales | Out of copyright Item 01: The perilous situation of The Guardian Frigate as she appeared striking on the rocks of ice - with the departure of the crew - and the wonderful intrepidity of the Commander Lieutenant Riou / [possibly by Robert Dighton] (ca. 1790) Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales | Out of copyright Lost, 1877 / Samuel Thomas Gill (1877) Courtesy of Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales | Out of copyright Black Thursday 1850 The Track of Death (1850) Courtesy of State Library of New South Wales | Out of copyright The Discovery on the Rocks in Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1792? / Zachariah Mudge (1792?) Courtesy of Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales | Out of copyright Burning of the Garden Palace from Eaglesfield, Darlinghurst, sketched at 5.55am, Sep 22/82 / watercolour by unknown artist (1882) Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales | Out of copyright The Burning of the Houses of Parliament (ca. 1834-1835) © Tate, London 2019 | CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported) The Pantheon, the Morning after the Fire (1792) © Tate, London 2019 | CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported) Distant View of Vesuvius, by Sunset. Verso: Sketch of Mountain Tops, or Cliffs and Rocks (1839) © Tate, London 2019 | CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported) An Eruption of Mount Vesuvius (1839) © Tate, London 2019 | CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 (Unported) Buffalo Turning on His Pursuers (1858-1860) Image source: The Walters Art Museum | CC0 1.0 Prairie on Fire (1858-1860) Image source: The Walters Art Museum | CC0 1.0 Wreck of the Salween, South Shields Sands (1895) Courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums | All Rights Reserved Lodewijk Napoleon bezoekt de ruïnes op het Rapenburg te Leiden na de ontploffing van het kruitschip op 12 januari 1807 (1807 - 1809) Image courtesy Rijksmuseum | Public Domain Breaking up of a Wreck at Tynemouth (1826) Courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums | All Rights Reserved Wreck of the Betsy Cains on the rocks at Battery Point, Tynemouth (1827) Courtesy of Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums | All Rights Reserved Eruption of Vesuvius of 179? From the series Views of Naples (1790s) © the Philadelphia Museum of Art, www.philamuseum.org | Public Domain Avalanche of snow from a roof. (1847-1850.) Library and Archives Canada, Peter Winkworth Collection of Canadiana, Acc. No. R9266-4219 | Copyright Expired Shipwreck and halt on the great Winipesi Lake, Oct. 23, 1821. (1821) Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1988-250-23 | Copyright Expired Wreck of the Windsor Castle ship. ([between 1884 and 1890]) Image courtesy of the State Library Victoria | Out of copyright A bush fire to the north of Mount Moriac ... [picture] (1854) Image courtesy of the State Library Victoria | Out of copyright [Bushfire] [art original]. ([ca. 1873-ca. 1908]) Image courtesy of the State Library Victoria | Out of copyright H.M.S. Challenger in Cook Straits, New Zealand and man lorst over-bord, [i.e. lost overboard] June 28th [art original] / John Arthur. (1874) Image courtesy of the State Library Victoria | Out of copyright Crimea St. under flood 1880. ([1880]) Image courtesy of the State Library Victoria | Out of copyright But by prompt measures, prevents serious consequences [art original] ([ca. 1842-ca. 1878]) Image courtesy of the State Library Victoria | Out of copyright Person on a raft, in rough seas [picture] / S. Prout Hill. ([1856?]) Image courtesy of the State Library Victoria | Out of copyright [An escape from the first gaol] [picture]. ([ca. 1875]) Image courtesy of the State Library Victoria | Out of copyright main sketchbook: Farming Family made Homeless by Flood (naive watercolour) v: animal studies (1835-1840) image © Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry | All Rights Reserved Fire at the Winter Palace on 17 December 1837 (1838) Image is used from www.hermitagemuseum.org, courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia | All Rights Reserved Explosion of a Wooden Bridge at the Leipzig Gate on 7 (19) October 1813 (Late 1810s) Image is used from www.hermitagemuseum.org, courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia | All Rights Reserved The Fire in the Winter Palace on 17 December 1837 (1838) Image is used from www.hermitagemuseum.org, courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia | All Rights Reserved The Fire of Moscow (Early 19th century) Image is used from www.hermitagemuseum.org, courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia | All Rights Reserved Fire of Smolensk (1816) Image is used from www.hermitagemuseum.org, courtesy of The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia | All Rights Reserved