Signed, this watercolour by Edward Theodore Compton (1849–1921) shows the Ortler, South Tyrol.

The Ortler, the highest peak in the South Tyrol and in the Eastern Alps, offered Compton a subject beyond his more frequently painted Bernese Oberland and Monte Rosa massifs. As one of the two leading peintres-alpinistes of his generation, alongside Gabriel Loppé, Compton's watercolours ranged across the full breadth of the Alpine chain.

Collectors of the Compton family and of South Tyrol/Ortler Alpine views will find this a fine watercolour extending his range beyond the Bernese Oberland subjects already well represented in this collection.