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Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JACOB WILHELM MECHAU (Leipzig 1745-1808 Dresden) The Latomia dei Cappuccini at Acradina.
Brush and brownish gray ink and wash over black chalk on cream laid paper, 1797. 415x336 mm; 163/8x131/4 inches. Initialed and dated in ink, lower left recto. Ex-collection Joseph Kalous, Vienna, ink stamp verso (not in Lugt); sold at Sotheby's, London, July 5, 2000, lot 296.
Acradina is near Syracuse in Sicily and the caves were a tourist attraction even during the 18th-century.
