The Caves of Acradina near Syracuse in Sicily
Medium
Brush and brownish gray ink, brush and brownish gray wash over black chalk. Framing line in pen and dark brown ink.
Dimensions
sheet: 16 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (41.5 x 33.6 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006
Accession Number
2006.69
Tags
About the Artist
Jacob Wilhelm Mechau · 1745–1808
Jacob Wilhelm Mechau (1745–1808) was a German painter and draughtsman who became one of the more distinctive landscape artists working in Rome during the late eighteenth century. Born in Dresden in 1745, Mechau received his early artistic education in the rich environment of that city's court culture, which placed a high premium on classical training and technical refinement. He later made his way...