Art, literature & history
The Caves of Acradina near Syracuse in Sicily
1797
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Brush and brownish gray ink, brush and brownish gray wash over black chalk. Framing line in pen and dark brown ink.
- Dimensions
- sheet: 16 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (41.5 x 33.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2006.69
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jacob Wilhelm Mechau. The Caves of Acradina near Syracuse in Sicily. Jacob Wilhelm Mechau; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Caves of Acradina near Syracuse in Sicily — Jacob Wilhelm Mechau. 1797.
Medium: Brush and brownish gray ink, brush and brownish gray wash over black chalk. Framing line in pen and dark brown ink.. Dimensions: sheet: 16 5/16 x 13 1/4 in. (41.5 x 33.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.