Together with the painters Johann Joachim Faber and Wilhelm von Götzloff, Reinhold spent the months from May to October 1823 on the Gulf of Naples, in Sorrento and on the isle of Capri. On the coast, the waves impressed him just as much as the jagged rocks. He was particularly fascinated by a gorge near Sorrento, which he captured in several portrait-format oil sketches. In this drawing, Reinhold expands the view into a landscape format, showing the ascending path to the rock chapel on the left, the large and dark grotto in the centre and the gorge on the right. He dissolves the massiveness of the landscape through the fine, silvery pencil line.