Live Auction 21459Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours
AFTER JACOPO LIGOZZI (1547-1627)
Lot 26

AFTER JACOPO LIGOZZI (1547-1627)

A rock ptarmigan (Lagopus muta)

Closed4 July 2023

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GBP 6,000–8,000

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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.)

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.

Specialist note

See under lot 22. This drawing corresponds closely with a watercolour by Jacopo Ligozzi in the Gabinetto dei disegni e delle stampe at the Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence (inv. 1991 O; see H. McBurney and C. Violani, op. cit., comp. fig. 74). The Italian name given to the bird in the inscription wrongly identifies it as a francolin, a different member of the pheasant family.