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The Cyclorama - the Great Earthquake at Lisbon, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

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The Cyclorama - the Great Earthquake at Lisbon, 1850. Display at the Colosseum in London: 'The approach and the effect of the earthquake [of 1755] are powerfully indicated; the subterranean roar; the darkness; the appalling crash; the horror and the desolation. We next see the ships tossing upon the waves, fated to the destruction with which the lowering sky only too visibly threatens them. All is terror and despair...the scenes are accompanied with musical illustrations, performed by Mr. Pittman, on the new Apollonicon, built by Bevingtons...The whole was designed and produced under the direction of the late Mr. W. Bradwell, and has been painted by Messrs. Danson and Son, to whom the execution of this splendid task does the highest possible credit'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM22A34_220

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

38,4Mo (4,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 22,9cm / 4960 x 2706 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation sea Portugal ship ships fire British geography dramatic panorama Lisbon disaster earthquake Victorian century Britain catastrophe newspapers press concept natural phenomena B&W engraved engraving sailing ship sailing ships 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper panorama Unknown 19th-century cyclorama Lisbon earthquake