Near Meta (Gulf of Naples), Jules Laurens, circa 1853

Plate 188: view of a building, possibly a convent, to left a high wall with a colonnaded terrace at the top, from which a woman addresses another woman on a walkway below, reached by two large steps, and forming a passage over which creepers grow, leading to a closed gate; in the foreground, tall stems of creepers and other plants and a circular well or trough; further walled structures and cliffs higher up to left and another building visible on the cliffs directly overlooking the sea in the distance to right; after edouard bertin lithograph on chine collé. Date: circa 1853. Dimensions: Height: 190 mm (image); Width: 269 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Près de Meta (Golfe de Naples) (BM 1880,0710.196)