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Labelled Royal Archeological Institution and numbered 1. The RAI was founded in 1843.
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A fan, the leaf painted with a trompe l'oeil of two views of Vesuvius errupting by day and night, August 1779 and the Grotto of Posilipo, inscribed in Italian, the verso with a hut and a ribbon, with ivory sticks - 11in., Italian, circa 1780