Sir William Hamilton's party on the island of Ponza Sir Francis Burdett A galleon with its sails

A galleon with its sails furled is surrounded with smaller boats in choppy waters

Plate 13 from the paper 'On a new construction of a condenser and air-pump'

Turkey was beginning to experience internal administrative problems

Sir John Key and a variety of City tradesmen and others

Sir William Hamilton's party on the island of Ponza Sir Francis Burdett A galleon with its sailsPlate 11 from the paper 'Some particulars of the present state of Mount Vesuvius; with the account of a journey into the province of Abruzzo, and a voyage to the Isle of Ponza', by Sir William Hamilton, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 76 (1786), pp. 365 381. Landscape view of the harbour on the island of Ponza in the Tyrrenian Sea, Italy. The scene shows local geology caused by volcanic action, notably solidified lava flows,