Campbell, Elizabeth (1783 – 1861) – ‘Saoga [Savoca] said to be the oldest Town in Sicily. 29th Apr 1825’; Elizabeth Campbell with Mr Walker or Mr Moore and a guide, Taormina in the distance.

Campbell, Elizabeth (1783 - 1861)
'Saoga [Savoca] said to be the oldest Town in Sicily. 29th Apr 1825'; Elizabeth Campbell with Mr Walker or Mr Moore and a guide, Taormina in the distance. Watercolour. Inscribed and dated, 1825. Provenance: An album of watercolours by Elizabeth Campbell. 8x11 inches.

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“We had left curiously placed on the summit of mountains an old town called Idoga and said to be the oldest in Sicily, of which some passing peasants seemed very proud: distant castle of Norman or Saranic origin crowned the abrubt points of apparently inaccessible rocks and spoke of former tyranny or barbaric fear: but the whole was grand. Here we saw the first palm trees growing wild, small and of no great age.”

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“We had left curiously placed on the summit of mountains an old town called Idoga and said to be the oldest in Sicily, of which some passing peasants seemed very proud: distant castle of Norman or Saranic origin crowned the abrubt points of apparently inaccessible rocks and spoke of former tyranny or barbaric fear: but the whole was grand. Here we saw the first palm trees growing wild, small and of no great age.”