Oil on paper , laminated on cardboard. Inscribed and numbered on the reverse. 21.5 x 28.5 cm.
• Wild and romantic coastal landscape from the heyday of the Romantic longing for Italy.
• Schirmer's work is influenced by the luminaries of heroic landscape painting, Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Christian Reinhardt.
• Schirmer taught landscape painting at the Berlin Academy and was appointed professor in 1843.
• Schirmer's most significant works are at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.