Near Santa Maria de' Monti, Naples, Thomas Jones, May 10, 1781

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Near Santa Maria de' Monti, Naples, May 10, 1781, Graphite, pen and ink and wash, sheet: 8 3/8 x 14 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Thomas Jones (British, Trevonen, Wales 1742–1803 Pencerrig, Wales), One of the most original British landscape artists of the eighteenth century, Jones lived in Italy from 1776 to 1783. This drawing was made near Naples. The artist was attracted to vistas he discovered along a remote road leading eastward out of the city toward the monastery of Santa Maria dei Monti and described the path in his diary as a 'hollow Way presenting

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