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Italian School, Early 17th Century
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Italian School, Early 17th Century

A lesser weever (Echiichthys vipera)

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Italian School, Early 17th Century
A lesser weever (Echiichthys vipera)
traces of black chalk, watercolour, heightened with white (partly oxidized) and gold
3 7/8 x 12 in. (9.9 x 30.6 cm.)

Cassiano dal Pozzo, by whom bound as part of an album, to his brother
Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo, and to his son
Gabriele dal Pozzo, and to his wife
Anna Teresa Benzoni, with her wax seal on the third folio, and to her son
Cosimo Antonio dal Pozzo on his majority, by whom sold in 1703 for 4000 scudi, with the remainder of his great-uncle's Museo Cartaceo, to
Giovanni Alessandro Albani, Pope Clement XI, and to his nephew
Cardinal Alessandro Albani, by whom sold in 1762 for 14,000 scudi, with more than 200 volumes from his library, to James Adam for King George III, with his mount, with framing lines by James Adam.
Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy.

專家說明

This drawing, and the one in the following lot, were once part of one of the many albums from the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657), one of the most important Italian collectors and patrons of the 17th Century. Dal Pozzo had a great interest in Archaeology, History and Natural History and in order to record the richness of the natural world and human creativity he put together a large number of albums with drawings for his so-called Museo Cartaceo (Paper Museum). Besides buying drawings for these albums, dal Pozzo also commissioned artists such as Jacopo Ligozzi (1547-1627) and Vincenzo Leonardi (1588-1657) to contribute to them.

It is unclear who executed the present drawing, but it is very close to and must be by the same hand as a few other drawings of fish in the Museo Cartaceo, for example one described as a Cross between a Hake (Family Gadidae) and a Drum or Croaker (Family Sciaenidae) in a private collection (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, exhib. cat., The British Museum, London, 1993, no. 95) and a Grayling (Thymallus thymallus) recently sold at auction (Bonham's, London, 3 December 2014, lot 7). It is by a different hand than the following lot.