LUIGI MAYER (c.1755-1803). AN IMPORTANT GROUP OF 31 18TH CENTURY WATERCOLOUR, CHALK, PEN, INK AND WASH STUDIES BEING VIEWS IN AND AROUND WALLACHIA TO INCLUDE VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, BUCHEREST AND PISENZA- VARIOUSLY INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND ONE DATED 1794. - (SEVERAL SQUARED FOR TRANSFER) THESE WORKS WERE EXECUTED WHILST THE ARTIST WAS IN THE EMPLOY OF SIR ROBERT AINSLIE ( SCOTTISH AMBASSADOR TO THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE) FROM 1776-1794. FOUR OF THESE PRESENT WORKS ARE INCLUDED AS ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM WATT IN "VIEWS IN THE OTTOMAN DOMINIONS IN EUROPE AND ASIA." (PUBLISHED 1810) THE WORKS MORE RECENTLY MOUNTED AND SOME FRAMED AND GLAZED BUT RETAINING THEIR PERIOD FOLIO COVER WHICH BEARS THE NAME ANNE AINSLIE- MCA 1863.. Provenance- Anne Ainslie (according to folio)- possibly to a Mrs A.Murton according to later label on the folio cover- Purchased in the 1970s By Sir Francis Sandilands and thence by descent to the present owner. ( SEE ALSO PRINTED WORKS BY AINSLIE & MAYER IN THIS SALE)