Discovery
[Pacichelli 1703, p. 93]

[Pacichelli, 1703, p. 86]
In the early nineteenth century, the nearby city of Naples, the capital, attracted travelers from all over Europe, who increasingly went to Sorrento by boat.

«Gravée à l’eau forte par Coyni – Terminée par de Ghendt». [Saint-Non 1781-1786, tav. C; Rotili 1977, tav. II; Fino, 2017, p. 31]

[Rotili 1977, tav. I; Iezzi 1989, p. 31; Miniero, Ercolano 1990, p. 14; Fino 1994, n. 20; Cuomo 2005, pp. 56-57; Cuomo 2013, p. 65; Fino 2017, p. 38]

Jakob Philipp Hackert portrait in his studio, 1797 by Augusto Nicodemo
With Hackert, “the deep trenches” became landscapes
Jacob Philipp Hackert, court painter of the Bourbons of Naples, was the first artist who interpreted the Sorrento valley as a landscape, inserting it in a collection of four subjects: all of them areas in the region of Naples frequented by foreigners on excursions.
With Turpin de Crissé the landscape of the valleys became emotion
For Turpin de Crissé the sun, illuminating only the top of those masses of foliage, left the rest of the valley in a mysterious chiaroscuro.
[Turpin de Crissé 1828, p. 30]

Turpin de Crissé in a portrait of Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet

«Dessiné par le C[om]te Turpin de C[rissé], gravé par Aubert».
Drawing by Lancelot-Théodore Turpin de Crissé, engraving by Pierre Eugène Aubert.
[Rotili 1977, tav. XVIII; Cuomo 2005, p. 68; Cuomo 2013, p. 62]

Bulino, cm. 14,6×20.
«Peint par le C[om]te Turpin de C[rissé]. Petit port de Sorrento – Gravé par Devilliers».
[Rotili 1977, tav. XIX; Cuomo 2005, p. 135; Fino 2017, p. 45]
Turpin de Crissé added the valley to the already known attractions of Sorrento (the Marina Piccola, the birthplace of Torquato Tasso and the remains of the so-called temple of Neptune).
In the 1920s, after the Napoleonic wars and revolutions, the scientific outlook gaze and the romantic outlook arrived upon the volcanic banks of Sorrento

Heidelberg, Staatliche Museum.
[Fino 2017, p. 163]

«J. Coignet 1829»; «Lith. de Villain».
Disegno di Jules Louis Coignet e incisione di François Le Villain.
[Persico Rolando 1988, tav. XXII; Iezzi 1989, p. 33; Miniero, Ercolano 1990, p. 40; Cuomo 2005, p. 80-81; Fino 2017, p. 58]

«A. Vianelli dis. – T. Witting inc.»
Drawing by Achille Vianelli; engraving by Teodoro Witting.
[Rotili 1977, tav. IX; Iezzi 1989, p. 75; Cuomo 2005, pp. 58-59; Fino 2017, p. 159]
Young artists descended into the valley, deep into the Earth: in search of the ravine
Achille Vianelli was the son of a Venetian diplomat and a Parisian and arrived in Naples in 1819 to study painting, where he participated in the experience of the School of Posillipo. Her drawing of the valley was engraved by her brother-in-law, Teodoro Witting, a German and her sister’s husband.
«A. Vianelli dis. – T. Witting inc.»
Drawing by Achille Vianelli; engraving by Teodoro Witting.
[Rotili 1977, tav. IX; Iezzi 1989, p. 75; Cuomo 2005, pp. 58-59; Fino 2017, p. 159]

The portrait of Achille-Etna Michallon painted by Léon Cogniet
Caminade, the engraver, was also a great landscape painter: among his works we remember the Tivoli waterfalls and scenes and places in Algiers bathed in Mediterranean light.

«Michallon del. Caminade Jne Lith».
Drawing by Achille-Etna Michallon and engraving by Alexandre-François Caminade.
[Persico Rolando 1988, tav. XXIV; Iezzi 1989, p. 80; Miniero, Ercolano 1990, p. 41; Cuomo 2005, pp. 62-63;]

Bulino su rame, cm. 27×43,5.
«F. Grospietsch fec. Roma 1823».
[Persico Rolando 1988, tav. XVI; Iezzi 1989, p. 60; Cuomo 2005, p. 56; Cuomo 2013, p. 63; Fino 2017, p. 26;]
And the imaginary was also fueled by the imagination …
[Blewitt 1853]
Lithograph, cm. 35,5×24,5.
Drawing by Jules Louis Philippe Coignet – Engraving by Alexis Victor Joly and Victor Adam.
Rotili 1977, tav. XXVIII; Iezzi 1989, p. 100; Cuomo 2005, pp. 60-61; Cuomo 2013, p. 64; Fino 2017, p. 56]


«Coignet 1832; Lith. de Gihaut»
Drawing by Jules Louis Coignet and Engraving by Gihaut.
[Persico Rolando, 1988, tav. XXIII; Iezzi 1989, p. 123; Cuomo 2005, p. 65;]
Many travelers contrasted the noise, heat and frenzy of Naples to the silence and tranquility of the Sorrentine Peninsula
But above all they were attracted to nature, a nature that was «extremely picturesque» [Blewitt 1853]
«Coignet 1832; Lith. de Gihaut»
Drawing by Jules Louis Coignet and Engraving by Gihaut.
[Persico Rolando, 1988, tav. XXIII; Iezzi 1989, p. 123; Cuomo 2005, p. 65;]

«K. Lindemann Frommel pinx» «4 sept.».
Drawing and engraving by Karl August Lindermann-Frommel
[Persico Rolando 1988, tav. VI; Fino 1994, n. 74; Cuomo 2005, p. 84; Cuomo 2005, p. 84; Fino 2017, p. 112]

«K. Lindemann Frommel pinx» «4 sept.».
Drawing and engraving by Karl August Lindermann-Frommel
[Persico Rolando 1988, tav. VI; Fino 1994, n. 74; Cuomo 2005, p. 84; Cuomo 2005, p. 84; Fino 2017, p. 112]
«Coignet del. – Villeneuve lith.»
Drawing by Jules Louis Coignet, Engraving by ? Villeneuve.
[Rotili 1977, tav. XXVII; Iezzi 1989, p. 82; Cuomo 2005, p. 60; Cuomo 2013, p. 64; Fino 2017, p. 57]
Drawing by Ernst Fries and Engraving by Karl Kuntz.
[Cuomo 2005]
“Drawn by J.D. Harding – Engraved by S. Fisher”.
Drawing by James Duffield Harving, Engraving by Samuel Fisher.
[L’Italie 1893; Rotili 1977, tav. XXVI; Cuomo 2005, p. 80]

«Ravins de Sorrento le 13 Nov 37».
Drawing and engraving by Karl Johan Billmark.
«Billmark».
Drawing and engraving by Karl Johan Billmark.
[Persico Rolando 1988, tav. XV; Fino 1994, n. 70; Cuomo 2005, p. 74; Fino 2017, p. 76]


The Austrian painter Johann Wenzel Peter in a self-portrait
«Wenzel dis. Cirelli lit. m.ss Oa[k?]es».
Drawing by Johann Wenzel Peter, Lithograph by Filippo Cirelli.
[«Surrentum» 1982, p. 11; Persico Rolando 1988, tav. XXXVI; Iezzi 1989, p. 71; Miniero, Ercolano 1990, p. 11; Cuomo 2005, pp. 65-66]

«Wenzel dis. Cirelli lit. m.ss Oa[k?]es».
Drawing by Johann Wenzel Peter, Lithograph by Filippo Cirelli.
[«Surrentum» 1982, p. 11; Persico Rolando 1988, tav. XXXVI; Iezzi 1989, p. 71; Miniero, Ercolano 1990, p. 11; Cuomo 2005, pp. 65-66]

«Peint par Karl Girardet – Gravé par Paul Girardet».
Drawing by Karl Girardet, engraving by Paul Girardet.
[Rotili 1977, tav. XXXII; Iezzi 1989, p. 101; Miniero, Ercolano 1990, p. 39; Cuomo 2005, pp. 66-67;]

Engraving di Schultz after drawing by Karl Girardet?.
«Schultz – Artistisches Institut v. F. Gutsch & Rupp».
[Cuomo 2005, pp. 66; Cuomo 2013, p. 65]

«W. Day Lith.r to the King 17, Gate S.t Linc: Inn G.ds
[Rotili 1977, tav. XXII; Iezzi 1989, p. 70; Cuomo 2005, p. 75]

William Linton in a self-portrait of 1821

William Day, the English engraver
Un’altra veduta del vallone ebbe straordinaria fortuna: mostra il vallone, una casa e un ponte in alto, una scala e le donne accanto al lavatoio in basso

Collocazione: Amburgo, Kunsthalle.

Heinrich Reinhold

Location: Darmstadt, Hessisches Landersmuseum
[Fino 2017, p. 98]

Johann Heinrich Schilbach
Ernst Fries between the Blue Grotto of Capri and the Vallone of Sorrento
In 1826 Ernst Fries was in Sorrento.
He became famous for having “discovered” the Blue Grotto of Capri in 1826.
In Sorrento, Fries drew not only the tuff bank but also the entrance to the staircase that descended from the road into the “ravine”.

Ernst Fries

Drawing by Ernst Fries e engraving by Karl Kuntz.
[Cuomo 2005]
«Remond 1827 – J. Lith. de Delpech »
Drawing by Jean Charles Joseph Remond and engraving by François Séraphin Delpech
[Rotili 1977, tav. XXI; Iezzi 1989, p. 57; Cuomo 2005, p. 76-77]
Sorrento, private collection
[Fino 2017, p. 122]

Giacinto Gigante
A composition that will also be taken up by photography

[Fiorentino 1991, 96]

[Fiorentino 1991, 96]