Naples – Schick, Rudolf (1840 Berlin 1887). Grotto of the Posillipo in Naples. Folks blessed by a priest coming home through the grotto on foot and by two-wheeled cart, among which a woman with fish and a merry boy with dog & bottle of Chianti. Wood engraving at Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1876.) Inscribed in the stock: R. Schick. 1875., otherwise typographically in German as above. 22.7 x 16.
From Schick’s 2nd Italian travel finished 1876. – Continuous local text on both sides on the grotto situated in the southwest of the town: “In this grotto more than three thousand years ago the inhabitants of Cumae and Parthenope worked towards each other to join the gulf of this with the Cumaean Sea … what rich change of events between the torches of the Greek and Romans enlightening the darkness, and the modern gaslights which the last Bourbon ordered to be set.”
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