AFTER JACOPO LIGOZZI (1547-1627)

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£ 6 000
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04.07.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
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ID 991573
Lot 26 | AFTER JACOPO LIGOZZI (1547-1627)
AFTER JACOPO LIGOZZI (1547-1627)

A rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)

inscribed ‘Lagopus/ Francolino bianco’ (upper right)

black chalk, watercolour, bodycolour

25.3 x 24 cm (10 x 9 1/2 in.)





Provenance

Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657), Rome; by descent to his brother,

Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); by descent to his grandson, from whom acquired by

Pope Clement XI (1649-1721), Rome; from whom acquired by his nephew in 1714,

Cardinal Alessandro Albani (1692-1779), Rome; from whom acquired in 1762 by

King George III (1738-1820); since 1823 in the Royal Library, at Windsor Castle, until sold from the Dal Pozzo collection by the Royal Librarian, Sir John Fortescue (1859-1933) to

Jacob Mendelson (died 1970), London; where acquired in the late 1930s by

James R. Herbert Boone (1899-1983), New York; Sotheby’s, New York, 16-17 September 1988, lot 157.



Literature

H. McBurney, ‘Cassiano dal Pozzo as scientific commentator. Ornithological texts, and images of birds from the Museo Cartaceo’ in Documentary culture, Florence and Rome, 1992, fig. 14.

H. McBurney and C. Violani, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. A Catalogue Raisonné. Series B. Natural History. Parts Four and Five. Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities, I, London, 2017, no. 174, ill.



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