Mount Etna erupts, 18 May 1886. Photograph by Giovanni Crupi. View from the Teatro Greco in Sicily. Photo collected by Charles and Ellen Thomas-Stanford, the last owners of Preston Manor.
This is an albumen photographic tourist print collected by the Stanford family showing the volcanic eruption of Mount Etna occurring at 11 am on 18 May 1886, as seen from the Greek Theatre. Mount Etna is located in the East of the island of Sicily, and at approximately 3350 meters, is Europe's highest active volcano. The print shows a man standing among the ruins of the Theatre watching the summit explosion of Etna, clouds of smoke billow into the sky. Printed in a band below the bottom edge of the photograph is, Eruzione, vista dal Teatro Greco, 18 Maggio 1886, ore 11 a.m, the albumen print No. 74, and the photographer?s name, Crupi. Giovanni Crupi practised photography in Southern Italy and Sicily in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century.
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