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Lot 108
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Jakob Philipp Hackert

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Description

  • Jakob Philipp Hackert
  • View of cava dei tirreni
  • Pen and black ink, within black ink framing lines;
    inscribed in black ink, lower margin: VEDUTA DI CAVA;
    bears large stencil number, verso: 8

Provenance

Reputedly from the collection of the Duc d'Orleans

Catalogue Note

Cava dei Tirreni, which lies inland from Vietri, was visited by Hackert several times during his trips along the Neapolitan coast, and when travelling south at different times in his life.  He visited the area first in February 1770 and we have a number of views of Cava and its surroundings from that period.  Hackert returned to the area in 1791, in the summer of 1792 and again in 1795.1

1. See C. Nordhoff and H. Reimer, Jacob Philipp Hackert 1737-1807, Berlin 1994, vol. I, pp. 97, 100-1, vol. II, nos. 625-33, reproduced vol. I, figs. 287-92 , 415 and 430-1