Lot 28: Giovanni Battista Lusieri, called Titta Lusieri (Rome 1754-1821 Athens)

Giovanni Battista Lusieri, called Titta Lusieri (Rome 1754-1821 Athens) Panoramic view of Rome from Piazza San Pietro in Montorio on the Janiculum: From Saint Peter's to the Chiesa Nuova with San Giovanni dei Fiorentini and Castel Sant' Angelo pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour 21½ x 36¾ in. (54.5 x 93.5 cm.)

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.

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

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.