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A Road in a Gorge near Naples

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Date

1782

Artist

Thomas Jones (1742-1803)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/431971

Description

Jones belonged to an innovative coterie of British artists who worked in Rome and Naples in the late eighteenth century, developing innovative approaches to landscape. Watercolor’s subtle expressive potential allowed the creation of this exquisite light-filled image that the artist took back with him to London in 1783. Attracted to picturesque locations, he found a narrow cliff-lined road behind the Hospital of San Gennaro in Naples, described in his Memoirs as flanked with "Masses of Tuffa, finely fringed with Shrubs of various hues and shades, and interspersed with grottoes or caverns, from whence stones for.building were excavated." Jones layered watercolor and gum to evoke the low golden light of a late afternoon, with the rays bathing a woman at prayer, a strolling workman, and a grazing donkey. Medium: watercolour, gum arabic glazes, over graphite.

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CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Naples, Italy

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Buildings
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Buildings & Architecture

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