LUIGI MAYER (1755-1803)

AN ANCIENT ODEON, TO BE SEEN NEAR CASTEL ROSSO, CARAMANI
With a handwritten label attached to the backboard identifying the subject
Gouache & watercolour
54 x 71 cm
 
PROVENANCE:
Eyre & Hobhouse (by 1983);
From whom acquired by The Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, London
 
EXHIBITED:
New York, Eyre & Hobhouse and Morton, Morris & Co., A grand tour in the Ottoman Empire : watercolours by Luigi Mayer (circa 1755-1803), 9th - 16th December 1983
 
 
 
 
This view does not appear in either Views or Antiquities, and is something of an anomaly therefore. It would appear to be the ancient odeon near Patara