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Mount Vesuvius, with Torre Annunziata (?)
Also titled De Vesuvius, met Torre Annunziata (?)
Josephus Augustus Knip (Tilburg, 1777–1847)
c. 1811
- Medium
- paper, watercolor (paint), graphite (mineral)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 186 mm x width 507 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Gerhards Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds, the VSBfonds, the Mondriaan Fonds and the Vereniging Rembrandt with additional funding from the Hendrik de Jong Fonds and the Liente Dons Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Knip’s annotation led to some confusion. While there is a place called Annunziata, it lies more to the south, farther south even than Naples, on the same peninsula as Sorrento. The place depicted here is clearly situated at the foot of the volcano near Naples. This must be Torre Annunziata, on the southern slope of Mount Vesuvius. It is now an industrial town.
