Pliny the Younger reprimanded by a friend of his uncle, The Younger Pliny Reproved (title on object), Text in English in the lower margin from Melmoth's translation of Pliny's sixth book, letter twenty, about the situation surrounding the death of his uncle Gaius Pliny Secundus maior (Pliny the Elder), who died during an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Pliny is here criticized by a friend of his uncle from Spain for sitting quietly writing while Pliny the Elder and others risk their lives., print maker: Thomas Burke, after painting by: Angelica Kauffmann, William Melmoth, London, 1794, paper, engraving, etching, height 429 mm × width 504 mm, print
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