ITALIAN SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY

Lot 30
04.07.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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£ 6 300
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Lot 30 | ITALIAN SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
Valeur estimée
£ 5 000 – 7 000
ITALIAN SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY

A bee orchid (Ophrys apifera Huds)

inscribed ‘392’ (upper and lower centre); ‘Testicolo Apino’, ‘Testicolo Apino’ (lower left) and ‘orchis Apiformis flore Purpurascen[...]/ Purpurascente/ Spetie di Testicoli/ da cui virtu è inunaltro/ 929’ (lower right)

watercolour and bodycolour, watermark encircled fleur-de-lys, hills, with letter ‘M’

39.1 x 24.9 cm (15 3/8 x 9 3/4 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 138.



Literature

F. Askell, Il Museo cartaceo di Cassiano Dal Pozzo. Cassiano naturalista. Quaderni Puteani, I, 1992, pp. 57, 60, fig. 38.

F. Garbari and L. Tongiorgi, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. A Catalogue Raisonné. Series B. Natural History. Part Six. Flora. The Erbario Miniato and Other Drawings, I, London, 2007, no. 246, ill.



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