ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS 1872 Sydney Prior Hall VICTORIAN ENGRAVING

Original 11 3/4 inch x 8 7/8 inch Engraving titled THE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS - “ON THE BRINK OF THE CRATER”.

From a sketch by Sydney Prior Hall (1842 - 1922). Sir Sydney Prior Hall MVO, MA was a British portrait painter and illustrator and one of the leading reportage artists of the later Victorian period.
The son of animal portraitist Harry Hall, Sydney Hall was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. He decided on a career as an artist while at Oxford University and joined the staff of The Graphic, an illustrated newspaper, shortly after its foundation in late 1869. He immediately established his name with a series of vivid drawings made at the front during the Franco-Prussian War.

Engraved by George Montbard (!841 - 1905). A French illustrator and caricaturist.

From The Graphic May 25th, 1872
The Graphic was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Limited. It continued to be published weekly under this title until 23 April 1932 and then changed title to The National Graphic between 28 April and 14 July 1932; it then ceased publication, after 3,266 issues.

Page size 15 1/2 inch x 11 1/2 inch

The engraving is in very good condition. Printed text on the reverse.