The Days’ Doings November 12th 1870

Volume 1. Number 16 This weeks cover is an engraving after a painting called “Interieur Pompeien” by Pierre Olivier Joseph Coomans, a Belgian artist who was living in Naples in the mid 19th century and was inspired by the excavations in Pompeii to paint in what is known as Neo-Pompeian style. This picture may have been celebrated

The Days’ Doings 150 years later

The cover story from The Days’ Doings published on November 5th 1870 tells of the capture and death of Pilone, a “celebrated capo-brigante” who had been “the terror of the country surrounding Mount Vesuvius”.