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John Peter Gandy

Gell and Gandy also published Pompeiana (1817–19), which came to be the standard work on the excavations at Pompeii.


The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum

Martin relied on the recently published Pompeiana (1819) by William Gell and John Peter Gandy for background information on the Roman town, and on Edwin Atherstone's 1821 epic poem "The Last Days of Herculaneum", published with Pliny the Younger's letters to Tacitus on the eruption.


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