Straits of Messina from San Gregorio, Messina, Sicily, 1842

  • Thomas Cole, American, 1801-1848

Graphite pencil on grayish green wove paper

  • Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 5/8 inches (26.4 × 37.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

39.386

Inscribed, upper center: Strains of Messina from San Gregorio

1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Thomas Cole, Straits of Messina from San Gregorio, Messina, Sicily, 1842, graphite pencil on grayish green wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 39.386.