Distant View of Mount Etna

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Distant View of Mount Etna

United States, 1842
Drawings
Graphite and white gouache on gray-green paper
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 in. (26.67 x 36.83 cm)
Anonymous gift in Memory of Margaret Badenoch Conkling (Mrs. Roscoe Conkling) (M.73.137.4)
Prints and Drawings
Not currently on public view

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From the exhibition Thomas Cole in Italy and Switzerland, 1841-1842 August 16, 2002-January 29, 2003 ...
From the exhibition Thomas Cole in Italy and Switzerland, 1841-1842 August 16, 2002-January 29, 2003 This is a preliminary drawing for one of Cole’s most celebrated paintings, The View of Etna from Taormina of 1843. Cole painted at least six views of Mount Etna, a volcanic mountain in eastern Sicily. He climbed the peak and described the hike in his journal on May 9, 1842. He also wrote a poem called “Mount Etna,” from which an excerpt follows: Sublime art thou O Mount!… [W]hen thy scathed sides Are laved with fire; answered thine earthquake voice By screams and clamor of affrighted men. Lone mountain of the pallid brow and heart Of fire! Thou art a resting place for thought, Thought reaching far above thy bounds; from thee To Him who bade the central fires construct This wond’rous fabric.
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