Villa Montalto Negroni; and La Ville des Empereurs

Another watercolour over engraved outlines of this composition is in the British Museum, London (Kenwood, The Iveagh Bequest, Images of the Grand Tour, Louis Ducros, 1748-1810, 1985, no. 66). The composition is from a series of seven views of Rome's most celebrated gardens. The set was etched by Ducros and Volpato and published in 1782-4. A drawing of the same compostion is at Lausanne (Kenwood, no. 12).
The villa was owned by Cardinal Montalto, later Pope Sixtus V and later owned by the Negroni family. When it was sold in 1784 the garden was destroyed and the contents of the house dispersed.