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    "localId": "144221",
    "label": "Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from a Cave",
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    "id": "144221",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from a Cave",
    "description": "Adolf von Heydeck worked in Rome and later traveled south to Naples. This drawing presents that city’s most distinctive attraction: Mount Vesuvius, an active volcano that appears against an otherwise calm sky. Von Heydeck portrayed the scene from within a cave interior, contrasting the potentially overwhelming force of nature with the illusion of protection offered by distance and enclosed space.",
    "date": "1820",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.69",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 26.9 x 37.9 cm (10 9/16 x 14 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 27.5 x 37.9 cm (10 13/16 x 14 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "watercolor with graphite; framing lines in pen and black ink",
    "tombstone": "Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples from a Cave, 1820. Adolf von Heydeck (German, 1787–1856). Watercolor with graphite; framing lines in pen and black ink; sheet: 26.9 x 37.9 cm (10 9/16 x 14 15/16 in.); secondary support: 27.5 x 37.9 cm (10 13/16 x 14 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation, 1968.69",
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            "description": "cream wove paper laid down on gray-blue laid paper (artist's mount?)"
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    "collection": "DR - German",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "inscribed on secondary support [by artist?], lower right, in graphite: al Posilipo A Napoli 1820; on verso of secondary support, upper left, in graphite: 44/ ; upper left, in graphite: Al Posilipo a Napoli"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "unidentified collector's mark, verso of secondary support, upper right, stamped in blue ink: H [illegible] [surrounded by an oval double border]"
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    "didYouKnow": "Mount Vesuvius was almost continuously active at the time that Adolf von Heydeck visited Naples, and erupted just two years after this drawing was completed.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Porzio, Annalisa and Marina Causa Picone. <em>Goethe e i suoi interlocutori</em>. Exh. Cat. Naples: Palazzo Reale, 1983.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 167, no. 56; Reproduced: p. 225"
        }
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    "creditline": "Gift of the John B. Putnam Foundation",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:24:10.765000",
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