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Luigi Mayer (c.1755 - 1803)
View of an Ancient Temple at Agrigentum [Sicily]
c.1776-92
Oil on canvas
Height: 43.8cm
Width: 63.5cm
Width: 63.5cm
Inscription: VEDUTA DI UN ANTICO TEMPIO ESISTE IN AGRIGENTO NELLA SELVA DEI FRATE OSSTI DETTO L'ORATORIO DI FALARIDE / Luigi Mayer pinx
Inscription note: Across the bottom of the canvas.
Inscription note: Across the bottom of the canvas.
Museum number: P332
On display: Model Room (pre-booked tours only)
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Provenance
Purchased by Soane at the Sir Robert Anslie sale, Christie's, 10 March 1809, lot 9. Luigi Mayer accompanied Sir Robert Ainslie, Ambassador to Constantinople 1776-92, on his travels in the Levant and Mediterranean and produced paintings for him with the intention that a selection eventually be engraved and published.
Literature
Soane, Description, 1830, p.24
Llewellyn, Briony, 'Luigi Mayer - Draughtsman to His Majesty's Amabassador at the Ottoman Porte', The Magazine for the International Collector of Watercolours, Drawings and Prints, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 1990
Llewellyn, Briony, 'The Empire Unvarnished' in Cornucopia, issue 53, 2015, pp.48-63
Llewellyn, Briony, 'Luigi Mayer - Draughtsman to His Majesty's Amabassador at the Ottoman Porte', The Magazine for the International Collector of Watercolours, Drawings and Prints, Vol. 5, No. 4, Winter 1990
Llewellyn, Briony, 'The Empire Unvarnished' in Cornucopia, issue 53, 2015, pp.48-63
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