Entrance to the Grotto of Posillipo  1842

The Grotto of Posillipo is actually a nearly half-mile-long tunnel that was cut through the rocky promontory separating Naples from the town of Posillipo in the first century. It became an icon of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. This sketch may have been painted as early as Rémond’s first visit to Naples, in 1822. It was included in an auction of hundreds of oil ...