🌋 Vesuvius is the volcano that buried Pompeii. In 1776, a book from Naples showed it erupting, plate after plate.

250 years later, something else erupts in Naples. A moka pot, on a kitchen stove.

Both rumble. Both boil over. Both leave a crust you chip off the next morning.

☕ VESUVIUS IN THE KITCHEN

Campi Phlegraei means "the burning fields", and every kitchen in Naples has one: the stove. It is the title of Sir William Hamilton's 1776 book of volcanoes, hand-coloured by Pietro Fabris, which I found in the open collection of the Yale Center for British Art. I built a Recraft style from eight of Fabris's plates and continued the book with eight new plates in its own kinds of pictures: the night eruption, the day plume, the crater, the specimen shelf. The volcanoes are now a moka pot, a pasta pot, a pot of ragù, a pizza oven and a pan of milk, each shown beside the 1776 plate it answers. Tiny 18th-century observers still watch each eruption, sketching and pointing, as they do in Fabris's plates.

Vesuvius still smokes. So does the moka. ✨

Try the style 👇 VESUVIUS IN THE KITCHEN