LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour

Measurements:

21.46 in. (54.50 cm.) (height) by 36.81 in. (93.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, Travels in Italy 1776-1783, Based on the 'Memoirs' of Thomas Jones, 1988, no. 15. Cardiff, National Museum of Wales, and other locations, Thomas Jones (1742-1803): An Artist Rediscovered, 2003, no. 102. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, Expanding Horizons: Giovanni Battista Lusieri and the Panoramic Landscape, 2012, no.6.

Literature:

F. Spirito, Lusieri, Naples, 2003, no. 10.

Provenance:

Commissioned by Philip Yorke, later 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (1757-1834), probably in 1778-9. The Earl of Hardwicke, Wimpole Hall and thence by descent.