Early Australian + International Art![]() Two drawings from The Museo Cartaceo of Cassiano Dal Pozzo (1588 – 1637)
Impeccable provenance including Pope Clement XI, King George III and many prominent collectors The left-hand drawing is Italian, Rome, late 16th/early 17th century: Study of a classical relief sculpture of a priest holding a cornucopia. Pen and brown ink with grey wash over black chalk laid down within double ink mounting lines, and again laid down Inscribed on the old mount 'Roma in Aedibus Verospis’ indicating that the depiction is of a relief in the Palazzo Verospi in the Via del Corso in Rome. The palace was stripped of its ancient art in the early 19th century after it was sold to the Banco Marignoli for offices The right hand drawing is of the Head of the same relief Black chalk & grey wash, with traces of old inventory number no. 467 Total sheet size 380 x 480 mm Price: $7,800 incl GST Provenance:
Publications: Included in the catalogue raisonne of the Museo Cartaceo, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo, published by Harvey Miller & the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, 1998-2016. Similar Sales:
![]() Nicholas Chevalier (1828 – 1902)
Berchtesgaden, circa 1850 Oil on board 14 X 20 cm Inscribed with title in artist hand verso. *The mountain in the background is Watzmann Mountain, the third highest in Germany and the highest located entirely on German territory. SOLD ![]() Mortimer Menpes (Aust 1855-1938)
A Ruined Palace, India Oil on board 11.5 x 17 cm Signed Illustrated: Menpes, India, 1905 $12,500 incl GST * A rare work by this highly collectible artist ![]() Mortimer Menpes (Aust 1855-1938)
A Roaring Business, 1887/88 Etching and drypoint Signed in the plate and further hand-signed in pencil 17.7 x 22.8 cm Illustrated: Morgan: The Etched Works of Mortimer Menpes as Catalogue number 108 $2,200 incl GST This image was first exhibited at Menpes's hugely successful Dowdeswell Gallery, Japan, exhibition in 1888. All etchings from this first exhibition are very rare. ![]() Fruhling Photographic Studio, Adelaide, SA
Overpainted photographic portrait of George Aiston in the uniform of the Adelaide Permanent Rifles, c 1899 64 x 51 cm $2,350 incl GST |