LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

66.73 in. (169.50 cm.) (height) by 87.83 in. (223.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated and inscribed 'Le passage de St Gothardt pres de Gernico. / peint par Ph. Hackert, 1783' (lower right, on the rock)

Provenance:

Painted for Philip Yorke, M.P., later 3rd Earl of Hardwicke (1757-1834), Tyttenhanger Park, Hertfordshire, and by descent through his fourth, and youngest, daughter, Lady Caroline Harriet Yorke (d. 1873), wife of John Somers Cocks, 2nd Earl Somers (1788-1852), to their son, Charles, 3rd Earl (and 4th Baron) Somers (1819-1883), Eastnor Castle, Ledbury, Herefordshire, from whom inherited, with Eastnor, by his first cousin once removed, Philip Reginald Somers Cocks, 5th Baron Somers (1815-1899), and by inheritance though the latter’s great-nephew, Arthur Herbert Tennyson Somers Cocks, 6th Baron Somers (1887-1944).