A Road in a Gorge near Naples, 1782, Watercolor, gum arabic glazes, over graphite, Sheet: 14 3/4 × 19 1/8 in. (37.5 × 48.5 cm), Drawings, Thomas Jones (British, Trevonen, Wales 1742–1803 Pencerrig, Wales), Jones belonged to an innovative coterie of British artists who worked in Rome and Naples in the late eighteenth century, developing innovative approaches to landscape. Watercolor’s subtle expressive potential allowed the creation of this exquisite light-filled image that the artist took back with him to London in 1783
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