Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Giovanni Battista Borra, 1713–1770, Italian
Title:
Stromboli
Date:
1750
Materials & Techniques:
Black ink with gray wash over graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 21 3/8 x 14 15/16 inches (54.3 x 37.9 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, upper center: "STROMBOLI"; lower center: "PIANTA DEL VESVVIIO COME ERA NEL 1750."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.1015
Classification:
Drawing & Watercolors-Architectural
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | clouds | volcanoes | aerial view | lava | geology
Associated Places:
Sicily | Eolie, Isole | Campania | Messina | Tyrrhenian Sea | Italy | Napoli | Stromboli, Isola | Vesuvius
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment (Harvard Art Museums, 2022-09-15 - 2023-01-16)

The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
Publications:
Edouard Kopp, Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022, pp. 140, 141, 311, Fig. 4, NC87 .D37 2022 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:27094