Watercolour over pencil heightened in white on paper, mounted

Circa 1830

12.5 cm. by 17.4cm.

Allom began his travels in Europe in the 1820s composing paintings that were used as the inspiration for the illustrations for a number of prominent publications. This quick and colourful sketch of the entrance into the harbour of Naples captures not only the principal topographical elements dominated by the looming presence of Vesuvius behind the hill top fortifications of Castel Sant’Elmo but also the energetic chaos of life on the water itself.

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