JACOB PHILIPP HACKERT (PRENZLAU 1737–1807 SAN PIETRO DI CAREGGI)

The view represents the Furlo Pass in the Marche, following the river Candigliano, on the Roman Via Flaminia. Under Vespasian, a tunnel was built in the gorge, of which the entrance is seen at right in Hackert’s drawing; immediately to its left, a small church was built in the fifteenth century. A view by Hackert of the opposite end of the tunnel, made at the same time, was in the sale Christie’s, London, 10 January 1990, lot 213 (C. Nordhoff and H. Reimer, Jakob Philipp Hackert, 1737-1807: Verzeichnis seiner Werke, II, Berlin, 1994, no. 692).