Frank Brangwyn made this etching from a sketch made on the spot at Messina, Sicily. It shows the seventeenth century statue known as the Immacolata di Marmor, one of the few monuments left intact after the 1908 earthquake in Sicily. He also painted a watercolour of the same subject. The etching is one of a number executed by Brangwyn in 1910, showing ruined and damaged buildings in Sicily following the earthquake of 1908.