Antonio Senape [1788 - 1850] was born in Rome but felt closer to the city of Naples, although he travelled all over Italy and up to Switzerland executing his fine landscape drawings mostly full of animated figures which make them stand out from the common Grand Tour souvenirs of the time. According to a letter pasted to the end paper, this album was acquired by an as yet unidentified member of the Yorke family of Sydney Lodge, Hamble: “The beautiful collection of unrivalled pen etchings [sic] of Naples and the coast of Italy, were purchased by me from Antonio Senape the artist who executed them. They formed his original sketches from which he made copies and sold to foreigners visiting Naples, but the disturbed state of Rome during the invasion of Garibaldi in 1849 having emptied Naples of foreign visitors, poor Senape had no further sale for these really inimitable works of art, and he was reduced to sell these original sketches which I purchased for a comparatively ridiculous price and add them to my property at Sydney Lodge bequeathed to John.” It may be a little fanciful but I would suggest that these could be the last drawings which he sold, being the originals for many of the images of his adopted city. He died the following year.