Figures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating Vesuvius during its eruption. Engraving by J. Wangner after G. Eichler the younger, ca. 1759.

[Augsburg] : Hertel excud, [between 1758 and 1760?]

1 print : engraving ; platemark 18.8 x 12.2 cm

Physica. Plinius naturae interpres et indagator fuit solertissimus, diutius victurus, nisi curiosus nimis in naturae arcana penetrare cupivisset. Nam Vesuvium exploraturus periit. Die Natur Erforschung. Plinius sucht zu ergrunden, muss dadurch seine Leben enden. Eichler del. I. Wangner sc. Bears numbers CLXXXIX and 189

Wellcome Collection 92i