LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink brown wash squared in black chalk lower right corner made up

Measurements:

9.49 in. (24.10 cm.) (height) by 7.24 in. (18.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with inscription 'Giulio Romano' (verso)

Exhibited:

Chicago, R.S. Johnson Fine Art, Old Master Prints & Drawings, 1450-1800, 1994, no. 6.

Literature:

Catalogue of the Ellesmere Collection of Drawings at Bridgewater House, London, 1898, no. 146. F. Hartt, Giulio Romano , New Haven, 1958, I, no. 213, ill. P. Fuhring, Design into Art. Drawings for architecture and ornament, the Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, I, London, 1989, no. 132, ill.

Provenance:

Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London (1664-1745) (L. 2184). Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830) (L. 2445). with Samuel Woodburn, London (1780-1853) from whom acquired by Lord Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857; L. 2710b), 1836, and by descent to the Duke of Sutherland; Sotheby's, London, 5 December 1972, lot 46. Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam (1926-2008) (L. 3883); Christie's, New York, 11 January 1994, lot 3.