Alessandrp D'Anna.View of Castel Sant' Elmo on top of Vomero hill defended by Sicilian Republican and French soldiers; with the Certosa di San Martino at right and Royalist soldiers firing their guns behind walls among trees from the foreground; within painted frame. Annotated with title; description and date in brown ink on verso. 鈥楢 colored view; in distemper; of "the attack on the castle of St. Elmo on the land side; by the marines from H.M.'s squadron; united with 500 Russians; a few Portuguese artillery-men; and a detachment of Cardinal Ruffo's irregular Calabrese army of royalists; on the 9th June; 1799". 1 drawing: gouache ; sheet 39.5 x 53.1 cm.1799.From: [Attack on the Castle of St. Elmo; on the 9th of June 1799].Maps K. Top. 83.60. iLondon; British Library.